National Museum of American History
North African Miquelet Jezail (Musket)
Jefferson, Thomas · ca 1789
North African miquelet lock Jezail inlaid with gold, resented to President Thomas Jefferson by Siddi Suliman Mella, ambassador of the Bey of Tunis, after the end of the Tripolitan War in 1805. Inscribed in Arabic “Made by Muhammad in Year 1203 after the Hijrah” (Sept. 21, 1789 - Sept 9, 1790)
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