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AN OTTOMAN IVORY-INLAID MIQUELET-LOCK GUN
TURKEY, LATE 17TH OR 18TH CENTURY
AN OTTOMAN IVORY-INLAID MIQUELET-LOCK GUN TURKEY, LATE 17TH OR 18TH CENTURY The rifled octagonal barrel of heavily watered steel, low standing back-sight, the brass encrusted steel lock with design of palmettes, the faceted wooden stock almost entirely veneered with ivory panels, the butt with rectangular green-stained ivory cartouches inlaid with copper hexagrams within ivory rectangles, between green-stained segmental lines, a register with ivory-inlaid panels showing a baluster vase emitting a stylized flower, a larger floral composition under the stock, each panel issuing a trefoil, the stock divided by a line of domed brass nails, the button trigger between bands of hexagrams leading to a large ivory-inlaid tulip, with further minute inlaid mosaic bands and hexagram clusters and six-pointed stars, the barrel with a applied plaque bearing an engraved coat of arm composed of a cross moline in a shield below a plumed helmet 56¾in. (144.2cm.) long