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AN ALBANIAN TANCICA MUSKET

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:450.00 USD Estimated At:900.00 - 1,000.00 USD
AN ALBANIAN TANCICA MUSKET
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...
A rare form, stocked entirely in finely-engraved steel, the butt covered in profiled and chiseled brass plaques containing panels of mother of pearl and enriched with elaborately-modeled silver studs and brass rosettes. The massive miquelet lock likewise engraved. The lengthy octagonal barrel retained by engraved brass bands. Mid-18th century.Minor losses to rosettes.Deaccessioned from the John Woodman Higgins Armory Museum, Worcester, MA.Minor losses to inlays.Overall length 146.6 cm. Condition II