An Ottoman Miquelet Lock Rifle, Turkey, second half 18th Century
Auction Closed
April 29, 12:32 PM GMT
Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
the octagonal pattern-welded sighted steel barrel cut with seven grooves, with arched steel tall back-sight, the barrel with a maker's mark reading 'work of Musa', the lock decoratively carved in places, with a maker's mark reading 'Osman Dede', set in an ebonised walnut full stock inlaid with carved silver panels secured by tacks, one stamped with a maker's mark reading 'work of Khayri ibn Bilal', swelling faceted butt with walnut butt-plate, five silver barrel bands some struck with illegible tughra stamps, suspension loop and rectangle, button trigger, brass-tipped wooden ramrod
128cm.
Philippe Missillier Collection no.54C
Another gun by the gunsmith Osman Dede is in the Military Museum, Istanbul (inv. no.1897, Tülin Çoruhlu, Osmanlı Tüfek, Tabanca ve Techizatları, Ankara: Genelkurmay Basım Evi, 1993, p.36), while Haji Musa signed a pistol in the same collection (inv. no.1542, Çoruhlu 1993, p.43).
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