Guns International #: 103412131
Seller's Inventory #: 259396

Category - Antique Rifles - 1500-1850 - Antique Rifles - Matchlock

Category
Antique Rifles - 1500-1850
Antique Rifles - Matchlock

MASSIVE 1700s Antique Northern India TORADAR MATCHLOCK Musket HAND CANNON MUGHAL EMPIRE Indian with LONG 47-3/8 Inch Barrel

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MASSIVE 1700s Antique Northern India TORADAR MATCHLOCK Musket HAND CANNON  

MUGHAL EMPIRE Indian with LONG 47-3/8 Inch Barrel

Here Ancestry Guns presents an antique Indian Toradar Matchlock Musket, made circa the 18th century in India. They were found mostly in the Mughal-influenced Northern and Central India. Emperor Akbar the Great was the Mughal ruler during the late half of the 16th Century. He was known for his many accomplishments, among which was the expansion of his empire. He was a great leader and military commander, but he also benefitted by adopting and developing firearms technology. Production and use of matchlock firearms greatly increased under his guidance, giving him an enormous advantage over those he would conquer. The Mughal Empire would finally succumb to the British in 1858. The matchlock would see its apex from the late 16th Century to about the early 1800s.

The gun is a type of smoothbore firearm used in the 16th through 18th centuries by defending forces to break the advance of enemy troops. Essentially, it was a scaled-up version of the army's standard infantry musket, but with a bore of up to one-inch (25.4 mm) caliber. These weapons filled a gap in firepower between the musket and the lightest artillery pieces, such as the swivel gun. This sort of weapon may also be found described as an amusette, rampart gun, or Hackbut, a name originally given to early medieval hand cannon.

Original dark patinas. Splitting is present in front of the trigger tang, behind the wrist, a cut at the third barrel band from the front, and a repair in front of the rear barrel band. The action functions. Markings are discernable. Darkened bore, remains good. A barrel band or two are loose.

Own the original! This is a legitimate antique and not a reproduction.

Barrel is 47-3/8 inches.

Caliber: .55 Matchlock

Overall condition as seen in photos.

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$2200

#259396
 

Antique: Yes

Price: $2,200.00
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