Unusual find at gunshow

[sportster73hp]

 

[sportster73hp]

Parts seem old or original but the hatchet seems added. The wood also felt newer.

 

[russellshaffer]

Interesting for sure. Did you cough up the $900?

 

[sportster73hp]

Interesting for sure. Did you cough up the $900?

NO !
May have coughed up a few hundred for the lock but not $900…

 

[rickystl]

This pistol likely is one of the better tourist items from the pre-1960 era. Built with a newer stock, but using an original lock, barrel, and ball trigger. They were built this way for the tourists while there were still a supply of original locks and barrels available locally. The brass axe head, and likely the brass trigger guard were likely added by some hobbyist later in the 20th/21st century. The hobbyist not knowing that ball triggers were rarely used in conjunction with trigger guards. The lock on the pistol is a very common Balkan miquelet from the period. And the barrel looks the same. Definitely not a $900.00 gun. Maybe $3-400.00 for the lock, barrel, and trigger. JMO I have a similar pistol less the axe and guard.

Rick

 

[deerstalkert]

straight out of the prop room for the Pirates of the Caribbean!

 

[hanshi]

That goes to prove the old complaint about a gun that kills at both ends.