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Indian percussion blunderbuss

Persian percussion blunderbuss

With very fine twistcore barrel.
Fine Qing matchlock musket

Fine mid Qing matchlock musket

With a golden damascened lock of the Indo-Portuguese type.
Batak bullet holder logo

Batak bullet holder

Carved of amber-colored horn, with an ancestral face with metal inlays.
Chinese powder flask overall

Qing powder flask

Southern Chinese style with birds in plum branches.
Qing powder flask logo

Fine Qing powder flask

Very good example with a finely carved warrior scene.
Chinese matchlock pistol logo

Chinese matchlock pistol

The first of its kind I've ever seen on the market.
 Indian flintlock lance logo

Flintlock lance

A what? Yes exactly. An extremely rare piece, the only example I am aware of in published collections at least.
Caucasian flintlock pistol logo

Caucasian silver niello miquelet pistol

Dagestani work from the town of Kubatchi, early to mid 19th century.
German flintlock with Ottoman barrel

Türkenbeute flintlock musket

Fine German hunting flintlock with captured Ottoman barrel.
Padri gun logo

A Padri carbine

An unusual variety, shortened to carbine size, with a chicken wing wood stock.
Indonesian Blunderbuss

An Indonesian blunderbuss

Of Chinese manufacture, traded widely and used gainst the Dutch during the Aceh Wars in 1873–1904.
Dutch-Indonesian Beaumont based shotgun logo

A fine and unusual Dutch colonial gun

Based on the Dutch Beaumont mechanism, but with Indonesian twist forged barrel and golden inlays.
Vietnamese matchlock with baitong lock logo

A Vietnamese matchlock musket

Called Súng hỏa mai in Vietnamese, with baitong lock.
Sindh flintlock logo

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 Balkan boyliya paragun logo

A fine "boyliya" paragun

One of Europe's rarest gun types. A fine example, with mother of pearl inlaid stock.
Dzeferdar miquelet

Dzeferdar miquelet rifle

With Ottoman twisted "damascus" barrel and fine mother-of-pearl inlaid stock.
Burmese sword carbine

Burmese sword carbine

A rare Burmese weapon combining a percussion carbine with a short sword.
Tibetan matchlock musket logo

Tibetan matchlock musket

A nice example of a rare, shorter carbine sized Tibetan matchlock musket.
Malay Matchlock musket

Fine Malay matchlock musket

A very fine Malay matchlock or "satingar" with Indo-Portuguese style luck.
Fine toradar with stippled barrel logo

Fine toradar with stippled barrel

With markings attributing it to Jalore.
Qing dynasty hunter's powder flask

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 th

Ottoman barreled gun

English rifle with Ottoman barrel

An English rifle that was built around an 18th-century Ottoman barrel of the finest quality.
Revolving matchlock musket logo

Indian revolving musket

The main disadvantage of early firearms was the long time it took to reload them.

Indian toradar

A fine Indian toradar with inlaid stock

General introduction

A number of downsized Indian toradar with such lavish inlays are in

Vietnamese musket

Vietnamese musket with silver lock

Cochinchina, second half of the 18th century.
Vietnamese matchlock

Vietnamese matchlock

A nice example with fossil elephant or mastodon molar butt plates.
Indian toradar logo

An Indian matchlock musket

A very fine, long and slender example with elaborate golden damascening.
Chinese matchlock musket

Chinese cavalry matchlock

Background

While the Chinese are hailed for inventing gunpowder and the gun, firearms in Ch