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Description: | Indian matchlock gun. Long barrel with floral designs in gold at muzzle and breech; fore-sight and back-sight, and four silver wire capucines holding the barrel to the stock. Flared muzzle. Iron ramrod decorated in gold. Full wooden stock decorated round the edges with floral designs on a gold background; two sling swivels riveted to the underneath. Narrow, straight, pentagonal-section butt: painted gold background and floral designs. The butt-plate of darker wood fixed to butt with two pegs. Side plates brass with two decorative rivets on one side and three on the other. Small metal tube on side of lock for pricker. Matchlock with rounded wooden cover with a groove in the middle and an opening for the serpentine. Flat trigger pierced with eight holes.
Accession number: NCM 1987-2769 | 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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