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A RARE GREEK DALIANI BLUNDERBUSS

Currency:USD Category:Firearms & Military / Armory - Amour Start Price:400.00 USD Estimated At:800.00 - 1,000.00 USD
A RARE GREEK DALIANI 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
The wooden stock of kariophili form, sheathed almost entirely in iron with a dentated widow to either side of the butt, enclosing applied brass rosettes and profiled steel panels. The flintlock mechanism engraved with foliate motifs. With brass triggerguard and British-made barrel, octagonal at the breech with round, molded ring at the muzzle, marked LONDON and struck with a number of ordnance marks. C. 1800. Minor losses to wood, cock loose.Overall length 66.9 cm.
Condition II