The first with russet sighted barrel (surface rust) finely decorated at the slightly flared muzzle and breech with symmetrical designs of elaborately entwined encrusted gold arabesques and foliage and retained by five silver barrel bands, gilt back-sight, gold-covered tang chased with owner's name 'Raja Sangat Singh Bahadur' in nastaliq, and deeply struck with a gold-lined maker's mark of Muhammad Hayat in nastaliq, pan with domed pivoting cover, silver side-plate secured by transverse pins on silver floret-shaped washers, hardwood full stock with silver mounts including long slender trigger-plate and butt-cap, gold-damascened pierced foliate trigger, silver sling loops, and original iron ramrod; the second of similar but planer form, with octagonal barrel (pitted), silver mounts (stock and mounts with some damage), and retaining its pricker on a silver chain; the last with octagonal barrel damascened in silver at the muzzle and breech, standing back-sight, rounded lock with crude East Indian Company mark, full stock with curved butt carved with scrollwork, iron and brass mounts, leather sling, and iron ramrod with baluster tip (in poor condition, iron parts with some pitting and surface rust ) (3) 131 cm., 127 cm. and 88 cm. barrels
The first with russet sighted barrel (surface rust) finely decorated at the slightly flared muzzle and breech with symmetrical designs of elaborately entwined encrusted gold arabesques and foliage and retained by five silver barrel bands, gilt back-sight, gold-covered tang chased with owner's name 'Raja Sangat Singh Bahadur' in nastaliq, and deeply struck with a gold-lined maker's mark of Muhammad Hayat in nastaliq, pan with domed pivoting cover, silver side-plate secured by transverse pins on silver floret-shaped washers, hardwood full stock with silver mounts including long slender trigger-plate and butt-cap, gold-damascened pierced foliate trigger, silver sling loops, and original iron ramrod; the second of similar but planer form, with octagonal barrel (pitted), silver mounts (stock and mounts with some damage), and retaining its pricker on a silver chain; the last with octagonal barrel damascened in silver at the muzzle and breech, standing back-sight, rounded lock with crude East Indian Company mark, full stock with curved butt carved with scrollwork, iron and brass mounts, leather sling, and iron ramrod with baluster tip (in poor condition, iron parts with some pitting and surface rust ) (3) 131 cm., 127 cm. and 88 cm. barrels
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