Description
Featuring tapering three-stage round barrel of approximately .65 caliber, stamped with false proofs and signature “T. RICHARDS & Co LONDON”. Flintlock mechanism featuring swan-neck cock and banana-shaped lock plate, each chiseled with floral décor in relief; the raised decoration polished, with the background blackened. Flash pan with silver highlights. Grooved frizzen face, a mark of Ottoman-made flintlocks. Walnut full stock, profusely inlaid with silver wire in scrolling foliate design. Silver mounts, including side plate, trigger guard, fore end cap, ramrod thimbles, and butt cap; each with floral decoration in relief on blackened background. Silver-tipped wood ramrod. Exceptional quality, with some silver loss, primarily on the reverse near the barrel. Small slivers of wood missing on reverse near the barrel and also bordering the butt cap.
Left Hand Dagger, Late 16th C, Probably German 
Signed Japanese Edo Wakizashi 
North European Broadsword, ca. 1630 
Late 16th C Landsknecht Dagger and Scabbard, Probably German