Just found this while browsing around: http://www.cmmilitaryantiques.com/gallery.php?arid=5896
It's seen better days but still the workmanship is amazing
Tonit wrote:Mmmm pretty.
$1900 hardly seems like a fortune for this either?
Warrigul wrote:Most of the decoration is added in the middle east, in all likelihood it would have originally looked like a normal sporting flintlock. If you look carefully you can see where alterations to the original configuration have been made and filled with bronze or filed off etc.
howtow wrote:Warrigul wrote:Most of the decoration is added in the middle east, in all likelihood it would have originally looked like a normal sporting flintlock. If you look carefully you can see where alterations to the original configuration have been made and filled with bronze or filed off etc.
Bah, I hate when they do that s**t.
Ruin something perfectly good just to try and squeeze a few extra bucks out of it.
Warrigul wrote:Ooops, no I meant that is what they do in the middle east, it seems perfectly genuine to me and is in all likelihood a bedouin or turkish desert firearm.