1500€
matchlock Padri musket
around 1800s
With heavy octagonal barrel (some pitting overall), iron pan with pivoting brass cover and cast foliate lever, characteristic flat brass lock with shaped foliate finials, serpentine with cast and engraved foliate decoration and acting against an external mainspring. Hardwood full stock with club-shaped butt. Flat along the back and set with an engraved brass mount (small top section of brass butt-plate missing), brass trigger-guard and trigger-plate with lock, the former retained by a screw with large cast brass head. 148 cm barrel
LITERATURE
https://www.mandarinmansion.com/article/padri-gun-westenenk
Islamic and Oriental Arms and Armour: A Lifetime's Passion, Robert Hales, p. 278
Raffles, Thomas Stamford (1817). The History of Java Volume I. London : Printed for Black, Parbury, and Allen. p. 296 plate 4.
MUSEUMS
Muzium Warisan Melayu (Malay Heritage Museum)
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, National Museum Negara
The example in the Royal Armouries, Leeds was purchased Sotheby's, 14 December 1980, lot 124, from the Major White collection.
Price:
1500€
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