Product Details
A 28-BORE MATCHLOCK SINGLE-SHOT MUSKET, UNSIGNED, TYPE 'TANEGASHIMA', no visible serial number,
Japanese, circa 1850, with carved, tapering octagonal 42 1/2in. iron barrel (pitted), blade fore-sight, raised and grooved fixed rear-sight, the barrel inlaid at breech with an oriental dragon frolicking in clouds and a silver 'MON' forwards of rear-sight, pan-cover missing from pan, plain elongated brass lockplate with large external decorated brass mainspring, hand-cocked serpentine, cherry wood full-stock of classic form (some age splitting) with applied and inlaid carved and engraved brass panels to breech and butt, some geometric, some floral, stylised carved and engraved panel of rolling clouds or smoke to comb and a depiction of bamboo underside of fore-end, two pierced and escutcheoned match-holder apertures, ball trigger and plain brass wire guard, two narrow brass barrel bands, four take-down cross-pins with floral escutcheons and provision for under-barrel ramrod (missing)
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Estimate £800-1,000