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AN OTTOMAN SHISHANA RIFLE

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:NA Estimated At:1,300.00 - 1,500.00 USD
AN OTTOMAN SHISHANA RIFLE
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...
Of characteristic form, the actively-grained hardwood stock inlaid with green-stained horn inlays and mounted in engraved silvered bands, the butt covered in velvet. The miquelet lock with bead finial, the superb octagonal barrel with swamped muzzle, finely inlaid with silver, wrought of exceptional twistcore pattern-welded damascus steel, and a maker’s mark struck in gold, WORK OF ‘ALI (?) Ramrod intact. Late18th century. Minor losses. Overall length 102 cm.
Condition II