OTTOMAN SILEX RIFLE "TÜFEK " Barrel with sides,... Lot 276 B

OTTOMAN SILEX RIFLE "TÜFEK " Barrel with sides, rifled, richly decorated on all its length of a silver damascene decoration of foliage and friezes, underlined of gilded nets and punched with the thunder. The barrel is maintained by a silver ring embossed and chased with foliage. Folding hausse with days piquetée of brass. Tail of breech decorated in continuation of inscriptions in Arabic and of nets of brass. Hammer and lock to the Morlaque decorated with a silver damascene. Tail of trigger button. Walnut frame and stock richly and profusely decorated with inlaid small brass circles with brass and black horn hearts, brass and mother of pearl. Ottoman Empire, Turkey, 19th centuryTotal length : 115 cm; Barrel length : 79,5 cm (Accidents to the frame, small shocks to the stock, mechanical accident to the hammer, missing the ramrod)