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A SOUTH INDIAN BLUNDERBUSS PISTOL

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:NA Estimated At:300.00 - 400.00 USD
A SOUTH INDIAN BLUNDERBUSS PISTOL
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 type, with hardwood fullstock and lock of European type. Octagonal barrel with expanded muzzle and silver inlaid motifs.Mid-19th century. Ramrod lacking. See R. Elgood, Firearms of the Islamic World, (Tauris: London) p. 183 for quite similar. Overall length 46.4 cm.
Condition III