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A RARE CAUCASIAN BLUNDERBUSS

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:600.00 USD Estimated At:1,200.00 - 1,400.00 USD
A RARE CAUCASIAN BLUNDERBUSS
Auctions Imperial is pleased to announce our 2013 sale, to be held March 16 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Timonium, Maryland. Over 300 lots of choice antique arms and armor including armor, helmets, shields, swords, daggers, battleaxes, maces, halberds, matchlocks, flintlocks and percussion pieces will be offered. Our fine selection for 2013 includes broadswords, baskethilts, shamshirs, shashkas, palas, kindjals, khanjars, tulwars and spears, as well as chain mail and breastplates. This sale will also include important swords and daggers from the Greek War of Independence and the armor of the K...
Daghestan work, showing Ottoman formal influence. The hardwood stock with engraved iron buttplate and counterplate with saddle ring, the wrist with twisted silver wire wrap. The lock well-engraved, the fine, pattern-welded damascus steel barrel with elaborately-chiseled and heavily gold-inlaid panels at the tang, breech and flared muzzle, together with a gold-inlaid maker's mark, retained by a pair of pierced, engraved and nielloed bands of characteristic Caucasian form. An oval plate inletted into the wrist bears a gold inscription partially translated, WORK OF 'ALI.Early 19th century. Minor rubbing. Overall length 54.6 cm. Condition II