Thank you, Pathfinder. It irks me that people will want answers without bothering to find things themselves, then question when they get an answer, and then 'experts' come on the scene and further criticize without providing any proof themselves, and laugh when a goodly person such as yourself answers to that. I don't know everything, but I don't just snipe and run.Well , the good DrLaw did “give free advice from his experience”.
Why? It may very well be Arabic in origin.Error on my part on stating the nationality of this pistol
Clark prior to observing photos of this pistol I had been studying features of another on the forum offered for sale that definitely appears Arabic.
Snipe and run? I gave you at least 1 reference by name. Want more? How about anything published by DeWitt Bailey on British martial arms over the oast 2+ decades. Howard Blackmore’s British Military firearms, a book that was publish in 1961 has listings and drawings of English proofs back to the 1650s. Would you like even more sources? You made a rather pathetic attempt to prove your point, and it even proved your point wrong. Just be a man and admit you were in error.
I'm not certain it is even old. Brass screws, a lock engraving that looks stamped instead of...engraved. I wouldn't be surprised if that barrel doesn't have a breech the way that tang is welded on. 19th century at the very oldest, I'm thinking tourist piece from the last 75 years.
I am interested since you said you had more information to elaborate
Ah ok, thank you. Yeah, I’ll have to get the lock off to see what I can find under there. How about if it was a tourist gun made in the mid-1800s though? Would you still be able to see a noticeable difference?
