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EARLY 1800s Antique AFGHAN JEZAIL Anglo-Afghan War Musket EIC RAMPANT LION Uniquely Stock Gun Designed to Fire from a Camel
Guns International #: 102257102 Seller's Inventory #: 228268
Category: Antique Rifles - 1500-1850 - Antique Rifles - Flintlock
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Seller: AncestryGunsLLC
Company: Ancestry Guns LLC
Member Since: 11/3/16
State: Missouri
Zip: 65203
Country: United States
Phone: (314) 707-7373
International Phone: 314-707-7373
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Description:
EARLY 1800s Antique AFGHAN JEZAIL Anglo-Afghan War Musket EIC RAMPANT LION
Uniquely Stock Gun Designed to Fire from a Camel
Here we present an antique Afghan Jezail Flintlock Musket, made circa the early 1800s. The jezail is a very uniquely stocked weapon. The curved club stock is speculated as being a way to carry and fire the weapon from the back of a moving horse or camel. This one, and many like this, were made by salvaging a captured British musket’s lock and barrel during the Anglo-Afghan War and placed on a musket of more native design. The British East India Company Rampant Lion is visible on this lock. Some of these are quite beautifully adorned with mother of pearl inlays. To quote the book “Tools of war: History of Weapons in Early Modern Times:
“Afghan snipers were expert marksmen and their juzzails fired roughened bullets, long iron nails or even pebbles over a range of some 250 metres. The Afghans could
fling the large rifles across their shoulders as if they were feathers and spring nimbly from rock to rock. The loved to decorate their rifles”.
The extreme length of the barrel on many of these made them very accurate at long ranges, such that the Afghan’s sniping from heights and cover was devastating to the British, as they were unable to reach back. Amazingly, some were even used by the Mujahideen in the resistance against the Soviet Union when they invaded Afghanistan. The longer barrels made loading the weapon from the back of a beast relatively easy as the butt would be set on the ground.
The overall condition is good. The action does not function as the lock is not properly affixed. Good bore for its age. Solid stock throughout and remains ornately decorated. A rampant lion is visible on the lock.
Own the original! This is a legitimate antique and not a reproduction.
Barrel is 31 inches.
Caliber: .57 Flintlock
Overall condition as seen in photos.
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$1800
#228268
SOLD
Antique: Yes