12th Dec, 2018 10:30 GMT/BST

Militaria & Ethnographica

 
Lot 474
 

474

A 19th Century Caucasian Flintlock Musket, the 95cm sighted octagonal damascus barrel with...

A 19th Century Caucasian Flintlock Musket, the 95cm sighted octagonal damascus barrel with swamped muzzle, inlaid at the breech with gold tendrils, the lock plate with East India Company lion, crowned 2 and dated 1808, the wood full stock with silver trigger guard, fore-end tip and three shaped barrel bands, the tapering cylindrical butt with chevron carved grip flanked by inlaid bands of silver flowerheads, the butt with three silver bands and foliate motifs, the baluster knopped steel ramrod with worm terminal, 136.5cm

Sold for £800
Estimated at £600 - £800


 

. Action works, holds at full and half cock. Wear to damascining on the barrel. Fine crack to right fore-end leading from lockplate, with a repaired crack to the opposing side. Sliver of wood missing to right fore-end along barrel edge at muzzle.

Auction: Militaria & Ethnographica, 12th Dec, 2018

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