Fine Relief Carved Silver Mounted Spanish Percussion Miquelet Pistol Dated 1832

.62 caliber. 7.125" two-stage pinned octagon to round slightly swamped barrel. NSN. Blued finish, silver mountings, fine relief carved European hardwood stock. Single shot smooth bore muzzleloading miquelet lock percussion pistol without sights. Lock marked with a raised VD makers mark in a depressed circle and dated 1832 above the mainspring. The pistol is profusely decorated with classical motifs including raised chiseled decorations at the breech that likely represent the Roman god Jupiter, a dolphin or sea serpent themed hammer nose with decorated hammer neck and spur, a raised bust of Caesar or another Roman emperor on the bottom of the silver butt cap and a similar decoration engraved on the bow of the silver triggerguard. The stock features raised carvings with foliate and classical themes on the forend, foliate scrolls down the backstrap and carved fish scale style checkering. Three silver pipes secure a button head steel ramrod. A really exquisite Spanish overcoat sized pistol from the early part of the percussion period. {ANTIQUE}

This lot is located in Cincinnati.

Very good. Bore dark, dirty, oxidized and with scattered pitting. Metal with traces of blued finish and a mostly oxidized mottled brownish gray patina with some scattered surface roughness. Lock needs mechanical attention and will cock securely but tension must be released slightly in order to get the trigger to move the sear. Stock fine and crisp with some light handling marks.

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Mr. Carey joined Cowan’s, a Freeman's company, in 2021 and is a 40-year veteran of the sporting arms and outdoor recreation industry. Carey joined Cowan’s from Griffin & Howe at Hudson Farms in Andover, N.J., where he was responsible for the acquisition, appraisal, and consignment of top-tier firearms consignments from important makers such as James Purdey & Sons of London, Beretta, Caesar Guerini, B. Rizzini, Bertuzzi, Renato Telo, and Anderson Wheeler.

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Fine Relief Carved Silver Mounted Spanish Percussion Miquelet Pistol Dated 1832

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