Chinese cavalry matchlock
Background While the Chinese are hailed for inventing gunpowder and the
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A very fine Malay matchlock or "satingar" with Indo-Portuguese style luck.
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General introduction A number of downsized Indian toradar with such lavish inl
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Of Chinese manufacture, traded widely and used gainst the Dutch during the Aceh Wars in 1873–1904.
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A very fine, long and slender example with elaborate golden damascening.
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With Ottoman twisted "damascus" barrel and fine mother-of-pearl inlaid stock.
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A nice example of a rare, shorter carbine sized Tibetan matchlock musket.
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The main disadvantage of early firearms was the long time it took to reload them.
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An English rifle that was built around an 18th-century Ottoman barrel of the finest quality.
GalleryA fine and unusual Dutch colonial gun
Based on the Dutch Beaumont mechanism, but with Indonesian twist forged barrel and golden inlays.
€5000,-Caucasian silver niello miquelet pistol
Dagestani work from the town of Kubatchi, early to mid 19th century.
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One of Europe's rarest gun types. A fine example, with mother of pearl inlaid stock.
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A large gun with English flintlock mechanism, as favored by the Mirs of the Talpur court. In very good condition, with…
€7300,-Flintlock lance
A what? Yes exactly. An extremely rare piece, the only example I am aware of in published collections at least.
€7500,-Colonial revolving matchlock gun
With five chamber canister. The whole in silver gilt overlay with Vietnamese decorative elements.
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