Original Ottoman Flintlock Jezail Musket with Portuguese Contract British Lock- Circa 1820 ZULU War Found in the Nepalese Cache

Found in the Nepalese Cache purchase this is a British made and Proofed 2nd Model Brunswick Percussion Rifle for belted ball first introduced in 1843 (See "Small Arms of the East India Company 1600-1856" by David Harding

The battery early that morning crossed the German border

Comes in the correct White Buff Leather

8th Bersaglieri Regiment Italian Brass badge with circular ribbon to the background

Original Ottoman Flintlock Jezail Musket with Portuguese Contract British Lock- Circa 1820 ZULU War Found in the Nepalese CacheOriginal Item: One of a kind. The jezail (sometimes Jezzail from the Arabic) is a simple, cost efficient and typically handmade muzzle loading long arm commonly used in the Middle East region in the past. This is most interesting in the the Flintlock Mechanism is British Made for a Portuguese contract around 1805, probably for a horse pistol delivered during the Peninsula Campaign under WELLINGTON during the Napoleonic Wars which ended in 1815. The