Pistol
ca. 1840 (made)
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| Place of origin |
Miquelet lock pistol: the watered steel barrel IS engraved and inlaid with gold; the lock is overlaid with gold; the stock is silver gilt and niello.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Engraved watered steel, gold, silver-gilt and niello. |
| Brief description | Miquelet lock pistol, the watered steel barrel engraved and inlaid with gold, the lock overlaid with gold, the stock of silver gilt and niello, Caucasus, Dagestan, about 1840 |
| Physical description | Miquelet lock pistol: the watered steel barrel IS engraved and inlaid with gold; the lock is overlaid with gold; the stock is silver gilt and niello. |
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| Production | Attributed by A. North as a Miquielet pistol from Dagestan (Caucasus) and likely to have been made in one of the following villages that were reknown for arms manufacture from the 18th century onwards: Kubachi, Kumukhk, and Kazinitstchi (see References). |
| Bibliographic reference | Anthony North, An Introduction to Islamic Arms (London: HMSO 1985): pl. 8; pp. 15-16. |
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| Accession number | 723-1889 |
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| Record created | September 25, 2002 |
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