Lot 146
  • 146

A Caucasian Miquelet lock gun 19th century

Estimate
1,200 - 1,500 EUR
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Description

  • length overall 151 cm.
the plain barrel almost entirely covered with silver and brass ferrules, engraved and inlaid in niello, the stock embellished en suite, applied with lozenge shaped plaque enamelled in turquoise and mustard and inlaid with glass paste plaquette

Condition

the barrel missing one small silver ferrule and some missing rivets, stock with losses to silvered applied small roundsels, enamelled plaque with some small losses, some surface rust
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