Flintlock gun
Category
Arms and armour
Date
1800
Materials
Steel, wood, brass, bone, mother-of-pearl and silver
Place of origin
Turkey
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Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1297693
Summary
A pair of Circassian flintlock guns, c18th/19th Century. Both with stocks inlaid with mother of pearl and ivory, one having brass bands bridling the barrel. Turkish or Persian miquelet lock musket circa 1800. Barrel; octagonal iron barrel with traces of silver nielloed decoration, the breech struck with a makers cartouche, the muzzle of slightly swollen form. Integral ramp at breech with peep-hole sight, the fore-sight missing. Barrel tang with silver nielloed decoration. Retained to the stock by three barrel bands with nielloed decoration. Steel ramrod. Stock; figured wooden full stock, the butt of straight polyogonal form with a pronounced step behind the breech. The butt inlaid with bone and mother-of-pearl banding, together with silver discs containing stained bone pellets and nail heads in a geometrical design. Bone butt-plate and fore-end cap. Button-form trigger. Lock; miquelet lock with nielloed decoration. Cock with ring-head jaw screw. Retained to the stock by two side-nails.
Provenance
Egerton collection devised to the National Trust in 1960 by Maurice, 4th Baron Egerton of Tatton (1874-1958)