Identification - Old percussion pistol

[honzikzloun]

Could you help me to identify this percussion pistol?
Thank you

 

[Loyalist Dave]

LD

 

[PathfinderNC]

IDK. But there is something “off” with it.
The metal looks force-aged throughout. And what’s going on with the barrel? Looks like metal eating worms got to it. And the front sight looks lower than the front of the (irregularly) swamped barrel front, so aiming with it isn’t possible.
Tourist production?

 

[Sam squanch]

As an old gun collector once said to me- if it looks European, but has no name stamped on it, it’s probably Belgian.

 

[Eric Krewson]

Looks to me like the pistol was very rusty and pitted and someone gave the metal parts a soak in evaporust.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Looks to me like the pistol was very rusty and pitted and someone gave the metal parts a soak in evaporust.

Followed by some buffing, too shiny to be straight out of the Evaporust tank, don't you think?

LD

 

[rickystl]

The barrel itself looks like a casting rather than a forging. Even the hammer screw looks like a casting. My best guess is that this is a tourist type pistol where the metal parts became rusted and then chemically cleaned. Probably from the 1950/60's.

Rick

 

[Sam squanch]

I don’t know, looks real to me. A little too much detail for a wall hanger. Can you take it apart carefully and post pictures of the underside of the barrel and the lock?

 

[hanshi]

Take away the nipple & bolster and I can see it as a flintlock now converted, well not recently converted.