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Originally Posted by fernando
OTOH, i (humbly) find it hard that the word AUSTRIA in the lock plate would have been engraved in Austria ... specially considering that it is written in spanish (or portuguese, btw)  |
Hi 'Nando,
Thanks a lot for your additions and for confirming my opinion that there must have been close relations between Spain and Austria.
I am afraid though I could not put my last sentence the way to leave no doubt about what I meant to say. What I meant to say indeed is that the lock was certainly made in Córdova/Córdoba, Spain, but not signed by the maker intentionally because he made it for export to Austria and therefore just left a discrete hint to his place of origin in a rather hidden place, the frizzen. Instead, he put AVSTRIA visibly in the middle of the lock plate, as a reference to the country of destination. The Austrian gunsmith who stocked the gun would then have most probably signed the barrel.
Best,
Michl