With swamped two-stage barrel with Indian inscriptions on the octagonal breech and on the slender rectangular tang, large shaped archaic flat lock with rounded cock in the form of a bird, the full and half-cock positions held by its tail, squat steel with sickle-shaped spring of Portuguese type, wooden full stock retaining some of its lacquered polychrome decoration, the butt formed as a khanjar-hilt and carved in relief with lotus flowers and foliage against a gilt ground, iron button trigger, and iron ramrod (some wear throughout) 15 1/8 in. (38.4 cm.)
With swamped two-stage barrel with Indian inscriptions on the octagonal breech and on the slender rectangular tang, large shaped archaic flat lock with rounded cock in the form of a bird, the full and half-cock positions held by its tail, squat steel with sickle-shaped spring of Portuguese type, wooden full stock retaining some of its lacquered polychrome decoration, the butt formed as a khanjar-hilt and carved in relief with lotus flowers and foliage against a gilt ground, iron button trigger, and iron ramrod (some wear throughout) 15 1/8 in. (38.4 cm.)
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