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Nice info! And interesting connections with surrounding languages in some of the terms. Çakmaklı/Chakhmakhli means "with flint/flintlock" in Turkish, çakmak both meaning lock, flintstone and (today) lighter. Ghondagh sounds like kundak, which means stock in Turkish (it also means a baby's...

Here's something interesting that someone posted on Twitter - a collection of Ottoman firearms from the late 17th-early 18th century, in the Museo Civico Nationale in Bologna. Apparently some of the items on display belonged to Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli, known for his State of the Military of...

Certainly possible. These were captured during the Great Turkish War, as far as I know, and it seems there was a fad during that era to use/show off Ottoman items as to signify that the user had participated in the war and earned loot. I've seen a couple of Ottoman muskets modified for European...

Much appreciated. I know and very much appreciate the work Hamit is doing, but I didn't know that he actually had those for sale (admittedly I haven't contacted him in a while, my fault). Oh I know, I know. It's not that the forestock doesn't reach to the muzzle of the gun, it very much is...

Stephen Wardlaw of CTMuzzleloaders built one that (as far as I know) functioned without issue when properly built, but in pistol form. Of course, I haven't even taken measurements yet, let alone actually seek a way to produce such a barrel-breech assembly, but it's fun to dream. Yes, exactly. I...

For the Algerian gun I need new barrel bands, bone inlay and restoration of the stock (the forestock's gone as is the ramrod, and there are a few cracks in it here and there). I live in a very dense neighborhood and can't exactly do the work myself (which is delicate anyway, I wouldn't want to...

I reckon those are "teşekkür ederim" and "bayrak". I think that is "tabanca", which means pistol today, but centuries ago meant palm/fist/punch and (I think) later on meant short rifle before evolving into pistol. Where in Turkey did you order your lock? If I could find a source of locks I...

I must say I'm quite envious of your travels. Thanks for the photos as always. One thing that I am curious about though, could the word that you mentioned be "harbi" instead of "harbiye" (harbi meaning ramrod in Turkish)?

Warms my heart and soothes my curiosity to see this thread ongoing with new data flowing in as always. A couple of possibilities come to mind regarding this specific example - it could have been simply captured from the Spanish or the Italians (or some other miquelet-wielding foe), and...

Wonderful photos in the thread as always. @cyten has quite the enviable journeys and encounters. Also happy to hear that @peserey occasionally builds miquelets, I should get in contact with him again sometime. Even if I were able to find and afford the works of those Caucasian smiths, I don't...

Yes, now looking at it, the file names of the images do say that. The second one seems not to have a refurbished stock, though, although it is of a later date. I guess one could take a look at the tschinkes (which do seem similar to me, although with caricature proportions), the 1568 dated one...

There are some in the Landeszeughaus in Gras, apparently. I only know of this fact and have photos of it in my collection -again- thanks to the late Michael Tromner and the Vikingsword forums.

Wondrous to see this thread still going, with beautiful content to boot. There are some still standing indeed in Istanbul; a whole neighborhood is named Nişantaşı because of these pillars. And what I know of the topic indeed corroborates your information. I never could believe Mahmud II making...

Unfortunately customs here are massively anal about anything looking vaguely gun-shaped (the very, very broad definition of a firearm in Turkish law helps, no doubt), and incompetent to boot. I'm not sure if I'd try my chance with bringing anything from abroad besides actually taking it myself -...

Hello Rick, I don't suppose you have a photo of said gun? A miquelet lock shaped like that would be quite the sight to see.

In Turkish we have a saying, "He who's accustomed is worse than he who's frenzied". Old habits die hard and all that. Wonderful resource, thank you! That percussion-converted Makedonka is one to remember. I missed out on miquelet version a few years back and haven't seen one like it since.

I've seen a couple, besides rickystl's dual ignition one. This one in the Royal Armouries is the closest one that came to mind, but you can find a couple more on the internet. There's one in my gun photo archive but I can't be bothered to find it.

Something odd that I stumbled upon in Wikipedia; Martini-action rifles made to handle like traditional Ottoman/Caucasian muzzleloaders through massive modification of the stock-receiver interface.

An object in the Royal Armouries has had my interest for quite some time now, but the thought of making a thread about it here in the forum has come to my mind only now. It's a tip-up breech musket, predating the Kammerlader, the Hall, the Crespi and so on, with a patent that apparently dates...

@cyten providing us with invaluable data, as always. Honestly I've never been much of a numbers man, and Ottoman economics, what with constant devaluation, seem like an almost incomprehensible field to my eyes. I'd trust the info you provided more than what I could put together. On another...