THE COLLECTION OF A CALIFORNIAN GENTLEMAN - AN IMPORTANT "BOYLIYA"-TYPE MIQUELET LOCK TUFENK

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Very long, octagonal, smoothbore, 15 mm cal. barrel, the rear sight at the base and the first part covered with silver foil engraved with floral motifs, silver foresight. Tang also covered and engraved en suite. Miquelet lock with cock of typical rounded shape on the back, covered with silver foil and engraved with racemes. Wooden full stock of thin, pentagonal section; the central part decorated with several mother-of-pearl plaques, circular brass-inlays and with thin interlaced silver threads (several missing parts); the last part of the stock richly decorated with brass inlays, mother-of-pearl plaques and green-painted bone stripes. The barrel brackets bands of embossed silver decorated with floral motifs. The long, silver foil ramrod pipe decorated en suite. Iron ramrod. Small defects and general missing parts. Very rare.