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AUCTION 43: ANTIQUE ARMS AND ARMOR
Lot 242:
A Balkan 14-bore miquelet smoothbore gun (Arnautka), 19th century, probably Albanian. The gun has a two-stage sighted barrel with a slightly flared muzzle which is retained by four shaped brass barrel bands, each chased with foliage on either side of a central band of ropework. The octagonal breech is lightly engraved with foliage and struck with a barrel smith’s mark on the top flat behind the back-sight. The tang is engraved, as well as the lock, in the style characteristic of these guns. It has a full stock of characteristic form almost entirely covered in panels engraved with designs of foliage. The butt is a slender "fish-tail" type engraved with foliage. There is engraving on the iron trigger-guard, which has a slender tang. The firearm retains its original iron ramrod which has a turned flared tip.
L: 57 1/4 in., (145 cm.)
Condition: Good with minor signs of wear.
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