Flintlock gun
Category
Arms and armour
Date
1800
Materials
iron, wood, brass, silver, bone, mother of pearl
Measurements
1160 mm (Length)485 mm (Length)17 mm (Length)
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Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1297693.2
Summary
Caucasian miquelet lock musket, c1800.
Full description
Caucasian miquelet lock musket, c1800. Round iron barrel, the breech formed with a raised collar with a peep-hole sight. The breech also with traces of gold damascene decoration and struck with a makers mark (very worn). The muzzle formed with a ring, this chiselled and with traces of gold decoration. The barrel tang with silver niello decoration. Retained to the stock by 9 pierced and decoratively shaped brass barrel bands. The ramrod missing. Barrel length 48.5cm. Calibre 17mm. Wooden full stock of figured Circassian walnut, the butt of straight polyogonal form with a pronounced step behind the breech. The stock inlaid with bone and mother-of-pearl plaques and banding, together with brass nail heads in a decorative pattern. Bone butt-plate. Button-form iron trigger. Miquelet lock of typical form with silver nielloed decoration overall. Retained to the stock by 2 side-nails. Overall length: 116cm
Provenance
Egerton collection devised to the National Trust in 1960 by Maurice, 4th Baron Egerton of Tatton (1874-1958)
References
Elgood, 1995: Robert Elgood, Firearms of the Islamic World