The matchlock musket with swamped octagonal twist sighted barrel. Inlaid silver lines around the muzzle and along the arched single aperture back-sight, and retained by forty-one plain silver barrels bands, pan with pivoting cover, russet iron side-plates covered in silver around the match-holder and set on each side with five silver roundels, all within beaded borders. The breech with integral pan with pivot-cover, stand alongback-sight. The action enclosed by a silver plaque decorated with flowerheads and beadwork borders. Full stock with a slender rounded butt applied with a dense arrangement of shaped plaques. Foiate bosses with beadwark on the spine, with punched shaped silver panels and roundels. The latter set with silver straps and bordered by beaded silver borders. Foliate engraved shaped silver trigger-plate, foliate engraved silver sleeves around the breech and towards the muzzle, one of the former forming a ramrod-entry, pierced iron trigger, ring for suspension, and original ramrod with silver tip. Measurements 118.0 cm barrel length Provenance. Roy Elvis Catalogue Number H10. For a related, less elaborate example see Robert Elgood, Firearms Of The Islamic World in the Tareq Rajab Museum, Kuwait, 1995, pp. 181 and 207-8, no. 124 (illustrated). Peter Harris Clocks & Militaria, Portobello RoadWE are open every Saturday between 9.30 - 3.30pm in Chelsea Galleries 67 Portobello Road London. We are at the front of the gallery, on the 1st aisle. Web page:-https://peterharrisclocks.com/welcome/