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‡ A RARE 18 BORE NORTH AFRICAN DECORATED SNAPHAUNCE PISTOL, MOROCCO, 18TH CENTURY with tapering barrel formed in two stages and retained by three chased silver bands, decorated with silver scrolls over the breech and at the muzzle (losses, small areas of pitting), tang decorated en suite and incorporating the back-sight, flat lock retained by a pair of screws on the lock side, struck with the maker~s mark beneath the pan and decorated with panels of engraved silver, (top-jaw expertly repaired), full stock profusely inlaid with delicate silver wire scrollwork over the rear portion and ahead of the lock, octagonal butt decorated with further silver wire scrolls and set with a nail with engraved domed silver head iron trigger-guard decorated with silver scrolls and a flowerhead, and iron ramrod with matching finial 35.4 cm; 14 in barrel