Pistol — Sayyid Ma'sum — 1795-1796

Silver mounted flintlock pistol with left-hand lock, with tapering steel barrel formed in two stages, and with gold overlaid lines at the breech and muzzle. Persian verses are overlaid in four panels on the top of the barrel, the two cartouches of the central panels terminating in a gold overlaid tiger calligramme. The walnut full stock is mounted with silver, and there is a silver side plate in tiger-stripe form. The cock is in the form of a tiger stripe terminating in a tiger-head chiselled in the round holding the flint between its jaws.