Description
TURKISH MIGULET LOCK RIFLE
CIRCA 1780
with very well embossed silver barrel mounts, stock with fine brass decoration and ivory inlays, very heavy octagonal barrel, deeply inlaid in gold and silver at the breech with a raised 4 hole ramp sight, single button trigger, the lock with missing top jaw and top jaw screw, the stock, inlaid with ivory and with numerous oriental decorative brass nails covering the entire butt section of the stock the octagonal muzzle inlaid and decorated with gilt flowers and foliage, 20 groove rifling, the block shaped butt missing a large section of inlaid decoration
52in. (132cm) long, 13 bore