fossil_digger Report This Comment
Date: June 03, 2009 02:27PM

The fruitwood stock elaborately carved in rococo motifs and extensively set with large embossed and chased silver plaques set with corals and enameled panels. The barrel tang signed and dated in Cyrillic characters, TULA 1742 in gold, barrel with applied silver plaques forming a stand of arms, a hunter with dogs and complex double arches, and further inlaid with gold stripes which highlight the Damascus pattern. Fine Russian presentation work in the Eastern style made as a diplomatic gift for an Ottoman or Central Asian ruler.Overall length 172.4 cm, barrel 134 cm.

Nameless_One Report This Comment
Date: June 03, 2009 02:30PM

It would be an honor and a privilege to be killed by this gun.

quasi Report This Comment
Date: June 03, 2009 06:29PM

Why go to all that trouble and expense? I just put my feet up on my ottoman.

fossil_digger Report This Comment
Date: June 03, 2009 06:58PM

there are slaves still in Florida?