Object Number: W2093

Collection: Militaria

Object Name: Firearm

Description: Albanian miquelet lock long-gun with octagonal barrel held to the stock by 5 engraved brass barrel bands, the rear band also formed with a raised rear sight. Wooden full stock with “fish-tail” form butt, the whole decorated with inscribed lines together with star-shaped punch marks. The rear section of the butt partly formed of bone with sections of wooden banding. Iron ramrod. Iron loop form trigger guard and scroll trigger. Miquelet lock of Balkan form with decorative bridle linking the cock and frizzen. The cock also with a “winged” jaw screw. 19th century. - Brian Godwin