A .650 CALIBRE OTTOMAN PERCUSSION RIFLE
A .650 CALIBRE OTTOMAN PERCUSSION RIFLE, TURKEY, MID-18TH CENTURY, with etched twist sighted barrel rifled with seven grooves, chiselled with a cartouche-shaped panel encrusted with gold scrollwork at the breech and muzzle and a series of four panels encrusted with gold inscriptions over its length, the latter joined by a slender rib and with the gold-lined barrelsmith~s mark behind, recessed chiselled breech decorated with flowers, breech tang fitted with calibrated folding back-sight, gold-encrusted etched lock signed in gold by the maker, figured walnut full stock, chequered grip, the butt with raised cheek-piece carved with a foliate rondel behind, etched steel mounts encrusted with gold scrolls en suite with the breech, bone fore-end cap, and iron ramrod, probably the original, 73,7 cm barrel¦
