Persian gun

Silver, wood - Caucasian walnut; overall length: 45 cm.
Persian quarto barrel, silver-wrought; European lock.
Persia and France (?), c. 18th century.
Persian barrel, damast (in firearms the so-called dziwer). On the upper part of the barrel among floral ornaments the punch of the master who made the barrel. The barrel set in a bed of elm or Caucasian walnut root, decorated with bone and metal escutcheons, attached to the bed by four decorative clamps made of silver sheet. The counterplate of the lock and the lower ferrule of the flask are silver, with an openwork Persian-type pendant in it. European lock, probably (judging by quality, type, etc.) French, on it secondary, unreadable letters.
A similar, but not so luxurious piece, with a similar punch on the barrel, can be found in the book "Persian and Indo-Persian Weapons of the 16th-19th Centuries from Polish Collections", published by the Castle Museum in Malbork, 2000, p. 374, items 257 a and b.