Beschreibung:

With browned twist barrels signed in gold in elaborately scrolled gothic script at the breeches and along the rib between with gold-inlaid inscription 'Wazir al-Mamalik Asaf al-Dawlah Yahya Khan Bahadur' in naskh, gold fore-sight between engraved gold garlands and two starbursts, the muzzles and breeches each with a line of engraved gold foliage between gold line borders, the latter with gold-lined touch-holes, tangs inlaid en suite and each with a martial trophy behind the gold-inlaid retaining screw and a starburst in the sighting groove, flat bevelled detented locks each inlaid in gold with engraved martial trophies, the one below the gold-lined semi-rainproof pan signed on a scroll, the internal working parts retaining most of the burnished and blued finish, bevelled cocks (two on one pistol replaced and retaining the original blued gold-inlaid top jaws and screws), retaining screw, top jaws and screws all gold-inlaid en suite with the locks, safety-catches also locking the steels, the latter also gold-inlaid en suite, and roller bearing on a ramp on the blued steel-springs, highly figured half-stocks (minor old bruising) with large swelling flat-sided butts each carved with characteristic stepped scroll behind the tail of the lock-plate, full silver mounts of exceptional quality comprising pommel-caps cast in relief with symmetrical foliage, foliate grotesque masks, and two serpents facing demi-hounds, all against a finely stippled ground, trigger-guards each with finial cast in relief as a Classical trophy of arms, and decorated with a martial trophy on the border engraved bow, rear ramrod-pipes each with cast pineapple finial, gold escutcheons each engraved with a title of Asaf-al-Dawlah 'Hizbar Jang' in decorative form, silver barrel-bolt escutcheons, and horn-tipped ramrods, possibly original, London proof marks (2) 23.2 cm. barrels