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A SOUTH INDIAN FLINTLOCK PISTOL

Currency:USD Category:Firearms & Military / Armory - Amour Start Price:200.00 USD Estimated At:400.00 - 500.00 USD
A SOUTH INDIAN FLINTLOCK PISTOL
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
A rare type, the hardwood fullstock elaborately inlaid with studs in geometrical patterns, the lock of European type. Octagonal barrel with swamped muzzle and inlaid motifs.Mid-19th century. Ramrod lacking, forearm chipped. See R. Elgood, Firearms of the Islamic World, (Tauris: London) p. 183 for quite similar. Overall length 44 cm.
Condition III