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AN AFGHAN JEZAIL MUSKET

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:NA Estimated At:200.00 - 300.00 USD
AN AFGHAN JEZAIL 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 stock elaborately inlaid with carved bone flowers and geometrical decorations and white metal pellets and plaques. Some mounts adapted from an Imperial Russian musket, including the flintlock mechanism with arsenal conversion to percussion, marked with Cyrilic characters for Izhevsk Arsenal and dated 1833, and the percussion drum and nipple. The barrel with raised, profiled central panel. Retains its ramrod. First half of the 19th century and later. Some wear. Overall length 103 cm.
Condition II