26th Nov, 2024 10:00

AUTUMN VIRTUAL FINE ANTIQUE ARMS & ARMOUR AUCTION

 
  Lot 88
 

88

A LATE 18TH OR EARLY 19TH CENTURY 18-BORE INDIAN MATCHLOCK LONGGUN (TORADAR)

50inch sighted barrel decorated with a scalloped panel of gold koftgari at the breech, the muzzle in the form of a Tiger's head covered in gold koftgari and decorated to match the breech, iron wrapped action secured by foliate topped rivets and with trefoil terminals, the full stock inlaid with four ivory foliate forms and with ivory butt plate, iron ramrod. This Sikh influenced piece forms part of a grouping of similar guns, at least one of which resides in The Royal Armouries, catalogue number XXVIF.126, presented to that institution by the East India Company in 1851 and said to have originated in Nurwur (Narwar). Ivory declaration submission number ABJR5G4L.

Sold for £1,500


 

50inch sighted barrel decorated with a scalloped panel of gold koftgari at the breech, the muzzle in the form of a Tiger's head covered in gold koftgari and decorated to match the breech, iron wrapped action secured by foliate topped rivets and with trefoil terminals, the full stock inlaid with four ivory foliate forms and with ivory butt plate, iron ramrod. This Sikh influenced piece forms part of a grouping of similar guns, at least one of which resides in The Royal Armouries, catalogue number XXVIF.126, presented to that institution by the East India Company in 1851 and said to have originated in Nurwur (Narwar). Ivory declaration submission number ABJR5G4L.