Can anyone give me some information on a flintlock I have owned for about 20 years pictures below

[brawny man]

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It looks a lot like a "Markwell Arms Derringer".

 

[Pork Chop]

The lock says that it isn't a CVA, the hammer on the lock says that it is a Markwell Arms product.

 

[Grenadier1758]

CVA or Markwell. Probably made by the same company in Spain with different stampings.

 

[RichardTW]

So what age would you say it is ?

 

[Grenadier1758]

I would think it would have been made in the mid 1970's.

 

[Hermanoshawken]

Hi. Yes, it is a copy made in Eibar (Spain), of a Deringer percussion pistol. Branded "Mendi". Cheap and decorative gun, manufactured in the early seventies. Previous to what was later Jukar and Dikar (CVA for the USA market). It sure is smoothbore. It can be polished and personalized, but only for decoration. Greetings from Spain.

 

[Hermanoshawken]

To use it, just to make noise with 10 grains of 3 fff.

 

[ZUG]

I use to buy those in kit form from DGW then assemble them and sell them. They were a novelty and would go bang - most of the time. They were made in Spain and if I remember correctly their cost as a kit was around $20.00. The shield and escutcheon were chrome plated on the kits that I purchased if I remember correctly.