AFRIQUE du NORD, fin du XIXème ou début du XXème siècle Flintlock fantasia rifle, single shot. Lock with the miquelet with decoration of foliage, with hook of safety back, signed in lower part. Octagonal barrel with niello decoration on all its faces of geometrical reasons, foliage and inscriptions in Arabic towards the thunder, maintained by rings out of stamped brass. Smooth. Caliber 17 mm. Long stained wood shaft engraved with geometric or scroll patterns, studded and inlaid with filigree and engraved bone plates. Cut-out iron counterplate with niello decoration in suite. Cut brass trigger guard, engraved with scrolls. Ornamental stick in stained wood with engraved bone end. Barrel length: 142 cm - Total length: 179.3 cm. Some oxidation and wear to the niello decorations, wear to the wood, broken and restored stock, accidents and missing watermarks.