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A QING DYNASTY CHINESE MUSKET

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:NA Estimated At:500.00 - 700.00 USD
A QING DYNASTY CHINESE 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...
The wooden stock lightly curved with expanded butt, lacquered crimson overall and mounted in finely-profiled brass. The matchlock mechanism of wrought iron with internal return spring. The heavy, smoothbore barrel with integral pan and brass cover, fitted with front and rear sights and signed on the underside at the breech. 18th century, perhaps lacquered and embellished in the 19th or 20th century. Light wear overall. Overall length 133 cm.
Condition II