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A RARE MOROCCAN MUSKET

Currency:USD Category:Firearms & Military / Armory - Amour Start Price:1,000.00 USD Estimated At:2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD
A RARE MOROCCAN MUSKET
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
Of Afedali type, with broadly-flared elephant butt, the hardwood stock lavishly and elegantly inlaid with silver floral motifs and Arabic inscriptions. Mounted with a fine, silver-inlaid snaphaunce lock struck with the maker?s name and featuring a sliding pan cover. The barrel with elaborate silver inlay to breech and muzzle, secured to the stock by silver bands. Retains its rambrod.First half of the 19th century.Light wear and losses to silverwork.Overall length 159 cm.
Condition III