EMPIRE OTTOMAN, première moitié du XIXème siècle Long pommel gun. European-style flintlock and swan-neck hammer with round bodies engraved with foliage. Round barrel, then sideways, decorated with a radiating mandorla with brass and copper inlays, a cartouche following the lock, moldings and a line of sight. Breechblock with Arabic calligraphy. Smooth. Cal. 16 mm. Long walnut barrel carved with saw-toothed leaves and two stylized fleurs-de-lis (?) with thunder and longevity. Cut brass fittings decorated with fillets and foliage, including a pommel with flowers and a knob engraved with a cartouche, counterplate decorated with foliage and stylized animals, trigger guard, ramrod holders. Thumbpiece in partially nielloed metal, in the form of an openwork leafy cartouche, with metal filigree decoration, possibly later. Iron trigger tail. Wooden ramrod. Barrel length: 29.8 cm - Overall length: 48.5 cm. Possible modifications to the brass fittings. Wear, scratches and a few knocks; small cracks around the lock plate and between the breech tail and counterplate, and longer at mid-barrel, after the lock plate; a few chips; one hitch restored.