Any linguists out there?

[Erzulis boat]

This a tourist trade "arm" in my collection. They kind of look the part, but are not.

You can see that they faked it with a rampant lion etc.

They went as far to implement a roller frizzen. It does spark pretty good though!

 

[Erzulis boat]

As phony as the "Key gun" next to it.

 

[UndeadPoet]

I had a friend check the letters with a native Russian, and she thought they might be Greek, but made no sense to her. (Maybe this is kind of like the term, “it’s all Greek to me”)

 

[springfield art]

Your pistol dos'e strongly suggest its not just a jumble of letters that might pass for an illiterate in European writing takeing it for European work & looks a nice pistol .Good luck with your quest
Regards Rudyard

It looks like more than just a wall-hanger tourist item. Good luck!

 

[springfield art]

It says- “ property of Sam squanch, please return “. could it be some variation of the Russian language, maybe a dead language now?

Probably will turn out to be the equivalent of those mountain-made Afghan guns of the past.

 

[TFoley]

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This a tourist trade "arm" in my collection. They kind of look the part, but are not.

You can see that they faked it with a rampant lion etc.

They went as far to implement a roller frizzen. It does spark pretty good though!

Here is the East India Company rampant lion symbol of ownership - this is on a fusil -

 

[rickystl]

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This a tourist trade "arm" in my collection. They kind of look the part, but are not.

You can see that they faked it with a rampant lion etc.

They went as far to implement a roller frizzen. It does spark pretty good though!

Based on these two photos, the gun looks legit to me. Of course the spurios marks on the lock added later - which was a common practice to help fool a future perspective buyer. More photos would help.

Rick