A Caucasian Miquelet Lock Pistol, signed Haji Mustafa, dated 1271 AH/1854-55 AD
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April 29, 12:32 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
the cylindrical watered steel barrel with gold inlay and maker’s mark ‘work of Haji Mustafa’, low back-sight, the steel lock densely overlaid with gold and inscribed ‘owned by Salim Khan’ and ‘1271’, set on wooden stock entirely covered with chased silver-gilt mounts inlaid with niello and inscribed ‘1271’ below the back-sight, button trigger, suspension loop and original leather and metal-thread powder cover
50cm.
Philippe Missillier Collection no.140C
Another Miquelet lock pistol with a barrel and lock inscribed ‘work of Haji Mustafa’ and dated 127[0] AH/1853-54 AD is now in the Wallace Collection, London (inv. no.OA2014). Two braces of pistols in the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg (inv. nos.V.O. 992 and V.O. 4761), are equipped with barrels stamped with the same maker’s mark (Yurij A. Miller, Kaukasiske våben fra Eremitage museet, Skt. Petersborg: våbenkunst i Kaukasus og Transkaukasien i det 18.–19. århundrede, Næstved: Devantier, 2000, pp.268, 114).
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