Late 18th century Persian muzzle-loading rifle
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Late 18th century Persian muzzle-loading rifle
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REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENTS 19th century
late 18th century
WEAPONS
The single-barrelled front-loading rifle is of late 18th century Persian manufacture and operates with a flintlock mechanism. Its frame is wooden with ornate decoration. The stock has a brass plate with relief spiral decoration and is fitted to the wood with a series of small iron nails. Another brass plate with spirals and two bronze small frogs decorates the base of the stock, the body of which is also decorated with four brass plates with spirals and brass rosettes. The wooden frame of the long barrel is ornate and silver-plated. Most of it is decorated with ivory diamonds and crescents, small bronze rosettes, studs and wire decorations. At the base of its end it has an engraved brass plate, while three brass plates in the form of rings connect the barrel to the wooden frame. The iron barrel is plain, round at its end and polygonal at its start, where there is also an additional small sheet of brass. The firing mechanism looks like a cock’s head on the outside, is decorated with silver engraved decorative plates and three red stones at its base. At the point where the stock ends, on its left side, a flat iron suspension ring is attached. On a small silver plate on the right side there is an engraved monogram in Persian script.