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Description: | Indian matchlock gun. Long watered steel barrel with two central grooves, touch pan without the cover, fore and back-sight. Full stock with decorated ramrod and five leather capucines, two strapping two thin pieces of metal for holding the sling swivel (missing), the other sling swivel at the centre of the stock. Stock inlaid with decorative ivory plaques of especially on top of the lock, and coated with black paint. Straight pentagonal-section butt also inlaid with floral ivory plaques. Plain butt plate. Decorated watered-steel side plates riveted to the stock with one brass stud on one side of the plate. Matchlock. Flat leaf-shaped trigger.
Accession number: NCM 1987-2768 | Subjects: | INDIAN firearms (antique) arms and armour | Source: | Nottingham City Museums and Galleries | Identifier: | http://media.culturegrid.org.uk/mediaLib... | Go to resource |
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