6th Dec, 2023 11:00

Arms, Armour & Militaria

 
Lot 195
 

195

A 20 BORE FLINTLOCK OTTOMAN HOLSTER PISTOL (KUBUR), TURKEY, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

with tapering sighted barrel formed with a long flat with a brief inscription, inlaid with silver (small losses) over the breech and struck with a mark (muzzle band missing, rubbed), engraved grooved tang, engraved strongly bevelled lock chiselled with foliage on the tail, full stock carved with foliage over the fore-end and about the tang, the latter set with a turquoise in a raised setting and inlaid with silver wire scrolls, brass mounts in the European taste, comprising spurred pommel (cap missing), side-plate, trigger-guard and two ramrod-pipes (escutcheon missing), and simulated ramrod, 34.0 cm barrel

Sold for £240


 

with tapering sighted barrel formed with a long flat with a brief inscription, inlaid with silver (small losses) over the breech and struck with a mark (muzzle band missing, rubbed), engraved grooved tang, engraved strongly bevelled lock chiselled with foliage on the tail, full stock carved with foliage over the fore-end and about the tang, the latter set with a turquoise in a raised setting and inlaid with silver wire scrolls, brass mounts in the European taste, comprising spurred pommel (cap missing), side-plate, trigger-guard and two ramrod-pipes (escutcheon missing), and simulated ramrod, 34.0 cm barrel