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SchildaBrit · 8th April 2021, 11:57 AM

Thank you Kwiatek for a valuable suggestion - it had not occurred to me that it might be two words.

As to Mir Ali: There seem to be 2 possibilities.
1) A place name - there is actually a village named Mir Ali in Waziristan.
However, this rifle is a personal weapon, so the name would be naturally applied, not the name of a village.

2) A personal name. Mir Ali exists as a Farsi/Dari name. This seems to me far more likely. The name is not cleanly engraved, but has been applied with a chisel point or gouge, hence the blobby nature of the "mim". And for someone hacking his name into the barrel in the backwoods of Afghanistan (or Iran) one cannot expect printed letter quality.

More to come on the barrel in the original thread!

8th April 2021, 11:57 AM	#3
SchildaBrit Member Join Date: Dec 2019 Posts: 33	Mir Ali ? Thank you Kwiatek for a valuable suggestion - it had not occurred to me that it might be two words. As to Mir Ali: There seem to be 2 possibilities. 1) A place name - there is actually a village named Mir Ali in Waziristan. However, this rifle is a personal weapon, so the name would be naturally applied, not the name of a village. 2) A personal name. Mir Ali exists as a Farsi/Dari name. This seems to me far more likely. The name is not cleanly engraved, but has been applied with a chisel point or gouge, hence the blobby nature of the "mim". And for someone hacking his name into the barrel in the backwoods of Afghanistan (or Iran) one cannot expect printed letter quality. More to come on the barrel in the original thread!