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					Originally Posted by fernando
					
				 
				Probably you didn't notice my later paragraph in my post #10. 
The opinion of Eduardo Nobre, author of  As Armas e os Barões, a book where he dedicates a chapter to Egg Butt pistols, with an introduction to this species plus some twenty multi angle ilustrated examples, is that yours is from the transition period XVIII - XIX centuries. 
Obviously you are not compelled to accept such opinion     .  
			
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 Please thank him for me! I wish we could find the maker. That would clear things up. If it really is Seria (#96 Levin) that would be ~ c1739.