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A CAUCASIAN BLUNDERBUSS

Currency:USD Category:Firearms & Military / Armory - Amour Start Price:400.00 USD Estimated At:800.00 - 1,000.00 USD
A CAUCASIAN BLUNDERBUSS
Auctions Imperial is pleased to announce our 2013 sale, to be held March 15 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Timonium, Maryland. Over 650 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 a
Probably Cossack work, the hardwood stock elaborately inlaid with mother of pearl lozenges and disks between lineal bone or antler divisions. With characteristic northeast Caucasian lock maker-marked in brass on the bridle and round barrel with broad, flattened muzzle and panels of silver inlay inscribed with ALLAH and SAHEB (Owner.) First half of the 19th century. Light wear. Overall length 60 cm.
Condition II