Description
INDIAN MATCHLOCK DOUBLE BARREL PISTOL
CIRCA 1790
the walnut stock encased in a steel action with flower head border engraving, with cut steel leaves below the pierced wooden pommel, capped in steel and border engraved, shaped block trigger firing both small bore engraved barrels together, the fore-end cut and shaped as flower heads, the match held into the pans with two spilt steel arms, missing ramrod, traces of gilt decoration on the wooden stock
9in. (22cm) long, 28 bore
Provenance:
Ex armoury of the Nizam of Hyderabad.