The Padri Gun by Westenenk
Translation from the 1908 Dutch language article by Louis Constant Westenenk.
Chinese matchlock pistol
The first of its kind I've ever seen on the market.
Flintlock lance
A what? Yes exactly. An extremely rare piece, the only example I am aware of in published collections at least.
Caucasian silver niello miquelet pistol
Dagestani work from the town of Kubatchi, early to mid 19th century.
Türkenbeute flintlock musket
Fine German hunting flintlock with captured Ottoman barrel.
Súng hỏa mai
Vietnamese word for matchlock musket.
A Padri carbine
An unusual variety, shortened to carbine size, with a chicken wing wood stock.
Kěmura
Acehnese word for blunderbuss.
Lila / lilla
Indonesian word for a swivel cannon.
An Indonesian blunderbuss
Of Chinese manufacture, traded widely and used gainst the Dutch during the Aceh Wars in 1873–1904.
Padri gun
Padri gun is the name of a Malay matchlock.
Satingar
Malay word for their matchlock musket.
A fine and unusual Dutch colonial gun
Based on the Dutch Beaumont mechanism, but with Indonesian twist forged barrel and golden inlays.
A Vietnamese matchlock musket
Called Súng hỏa mai in Vietnamese, with baitong lock.
A fine Sindh flintlock
A large gun with English flintlock mechanism, as favored by the Mirs of the Talpur court. In very good condition, with almost all the gold remaining.
A fine "boyliya" paragun
One of Europe's rarest gun types. A fine example, with mother of pearl inlaid stock.
Jeferdar
The alternative spelling of the Džeferdar, a type of miquelet gun from Montenegro.
Džeferdar
A type of gun from Montenegro with rich mother-of-pearl inlays.
Niǎoqiāng (鳥鎗)
The Chinese word for matchlock musket.
Me mda' (ཨེ་མདའ་)
Tibetan word for the matchlock musket.
Mediterranean lock
An alternative name for the miquelet lock
Miquelet
Collector's jargon for a type of lock for a firearm
Dzeferdar miquelet rifle
With Ottoman twisted "damascus" barrel and fine mother-of-pearl inlaid stock.
Burmese sword carbine
A rare Burmese weapon combining a percussion carbine with a short sword.
Toradar
The Indian matchlock musket.
Tibetan matchlock musket
A nice example of a rare, shorter carbine sized Tibetan matchlock musket.
Fine Malay matchlock musket
A very fine Malay matchlock or "satingar" with Indo-Portuguese style luck.
Fine toradar with stippled barrel
With markings attributing it to Jalore.
Qing dynasty hunter's powder flask
Introduction
The elite of the Qing dynasty was Manchu, who before taking over China from the Ming lived in
English rifle with Ottoman barrel
An English rifle that was built around an 18th-century Ottoman barrel of the finest quality.
Indian revolving musket
The main disadvantage of early firearms was the long time it took to reload them.
A fine Indian toradar with inlaid stock
General introduction
A number of downsized Indian toradar with such lavish inlays are in circulati
Vietnamese musket with silver lock
Cochinchina, second half of the 18th century.
Vietnamese matchlock
A nice example with fossil elephant or mastodon molar butt plates.
An Indian matchlock musket
A very fine, long and slender example with elaborate golden damascening.
Chinese cavalry matchlock
Background
While the Chinese are hailed for inventing gunpowder and the gun, firearms in Ch
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