A very scarce flintlock pistol

dating: First half of the 19th Century provenance: Morocco, Round, smooth-bore, 15 mm cal. barrel, decorated with rings in the first section, brass fore-sight; tang with sight; snaphaunce flintlock, the cock and pan decorated with golden arabesques, sliding pan cover; wooden, full stock with iron trigger guard decorated en suite, beautiful, silver butt-plate finely engraved with floral motifs, barrel's bracket band in silver foil decorated en suite, mother-of-pearl inlays on the back and left side, portraying crescents. Iron ramrod, tip chiselled with geometrical motifs. length 41.5 cm.