A torador-type matchlock gun, Late 18th - Early 19th Century

A torador-type matchlock gun, Late 18th - Early 19th Century

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India
length 122 cm.
Smoothbore, octagonal, 12 mm cal. barrel, decorated with silver floral motifs at the ends, with foresight. With decorated pan and pan cover on the right side; tang with brass band and iron rear sight. Wooden full stock with thin faceted butt, the part around the tang and the final segment of the butt of modern plastic restoration. Brass side mounts decorated with rosettes. Iron trigger, cock and ramrod. Defects and missing parts. This lot is imported from a non-EU country and incurs additional taxes beyond the auction house commission and the V.A.T. Consequently, the total Buyer’s Premium, inclusive of all taxes, amounts to 35%.