Attractive Yemen – Coorg matchlock musket with silver mounts

A nice quality Indo-Arab musket gun as found throughout southern Arabia especially Yemen and also found along the southern coast of India, Malabar where Arab trade and settlement was prolific in times past. This example has the typical wooden feature to the butt, nice quality silver mounts including pseudo coin decoration along the stock. Showing age wear and patination, a nice uncleaned example circa 1800