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Japanese matchlock converted to percussion, overall length:1299mm, barrel length:1002mm, weight:3190g.
Caucasian / Circassian flintlock musket, hardwood stock with horn butt and inlaid staghorn details, forearm cap of horn, and massive miquelet lock and button trigger. Three silver bands retain the fine barrel, an exceptional example of pattern-welded damascus steel inlaid with gold at breach and muzzle in Gordian Knot motifs and struck with a gold signature reading, Work of Muhammad Saneh (?) Retains its original ramrod with profiled finial. Late 18th-early 19th century. Overall length 134 cm.
Ottoman matchlock, 17th century, twisted steel barrel, twelve sided at the breech, cartouches of arabesques in strapwork, the panels set with carnelians, peep sight at the rear, small fore sight at the muzzle swamped and decorated with bands of ornament matching the breech, walnut stock with hole for the match, bordered with a rosette in walrus ivory, walrus ivory butt plate bordered with bands of horn and green stained ivory, length 1270 mm, barrel 937 mm, 4455g. Royal Armouries.
Sri Lankan (Ceylon) flintlock,18th century, iron, wood, ivory, silver, L. 87 1/4 in. (221.6 cm); L. of barrel 73 3/4 in. (187.3 cm); Cal. .54 in. (13.7 mm); Wt. 11 lb. 2 oz. (5046 g), Met Museum.
Starr Percussion Carbine A little over 20,000 examples of our GOTD were manufactured in Yonkers, NY. This American Civil War carbine was a creation of Ebenezer Starr, grandson of Ethan Starr, who had produced M1816 musket and M1817 rifles previously on government contracts. The young Starr's carbine received favorable reviews from military evaluators, but most of those made wound up out in the West, being used by Arkansas, Kansas, and Missouri troopers. Caliber: .54 percussion
A seven-foot-long gold Miquelet lock musket that was given to President Thomas Jefferson in 1805 by the Bey of Tunisia after the Tripolitan Wars. This extravagant firearm is often considered a national treasure.
Ottoman miquelet lock gun, dated 1731–32. steel, gold, brass, ivory, wood, L. 55 5/8 in. (141.3 cm), Met Museum, Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935.