A Saudi Jezail Percussion Rifle, ca. 1890
A Saudi Jezail Percussion Rifle, ca. 1890
The wooden full stock decorated with large and small engraved silver plates, copper wire and smooth round barrel. The grip with fine engraved iron butt cap and decorated with over a hundred small Rat tooth. Brass trigger guard, iron lock plate, cock and original ramrod. The trigger plate stamped with ‘VR’ under British Crown and ‘1857 Tower’. (Old restorations)
Length: 134 cm. [III]