Lot 160
  • 160

An Ottoman silver-gilt mounted Flintlock Blunderbuss, Turkey, circa 1810-20

Estimate
10,000 - 12,000 GBP
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Description

the iron barrel with belled muzzle and chiselled foliate decoration on the upper side, the lockplate and cock en suite, the stock and barrel richly decorated with raised silver-gilt reticulated strapwork, swivels and trigger-guard en suite, fitted iron ramrod

Catalogue Note

There are two similar flintlock blunderbusses in the Wallace Collection, London, and a near pair exhibited and published in Paris 1988, no.67, pp.47 and 166.