SOLD - Turkish flintlock knee blunderbuss with gold and silver inlay

Ref : 16411

A long, ornate Turkish flintlock knee blunderbuss - the steel barrel with flared muzzle, the breech chiselled in high relief with a trophy of arms and Turkish crescent, with gold background and two other gold inlaid panels, the mechanism chiselled in high relief en suite to the barrel, the hammer and frizen also decorated with trophies of arms in high relief, with a gold vent, spurious signature, mounts of ornate silver, and the entire stock inlaid with silver wire with floral designs and a bird on each side of the butt, the blunderbuss complete with a fixed ramrod

Date circa: 1820

Country: Turkish


price: SOLD

Ref : 16411


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