SOUTH INDIAN FLINTLOCK PISTOL, 19c

Status: Sold · Region: Other · Type: Other

A rare type, the hardwood full stock elaborately inlaid with silver studs in geometrical patterns, the lock of European type. Octagonal barrel with swamped muzzle and elaborated silver inlaid motifs. Mid-19th century. See R. Elgood, Firearms of the Islamic World, (Tauris: London) p. 183 for quite similar.

Overall is 17 1/2", barrel is 11".