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Kubur · 13th June 2015, 08:43 PM

Ok, it's just an abstract of what I read.
Ulcinj was a town to the South of Montenegro and an Albanian centre of pistols production. The town had trade links with Egypt and Tunisia.
Albanesi traders and merceneries worked notably with egypt, Tunisa and Algeria
and participated to the diffusion of Balkans arms in the Ottoman empire.
Ulcinj was also an haven for corsairs from North Africa.
They decorated their gun barrels with animal and humans figures, they even engraved their Italians gun locks from Brescia with figures.
This decoration was made to please the taste of North Africans and mixed populations of Albanians living in Africa.
Reference: Elgood, Arms of Greece, mainly p. 39-40
I think this information is useful not only for your gun, but also to understand the spread of Ottoman arms in North Africa...

13th June 2015, 08:43 PM	#15
Kubur Member Join Date: Jun 2013 Posts: 2,145	Ok, it's just an abstract of what I read. Ulcinj was a town to the South of Montenegro and an Albanian centre of pistols production. The town had trade links with Egypt and Tunisia. Albanesi traders and merceneries worked notably with egypt, Tunisa and Algeria and participated to the diffusion of Balkans arms in the Ottoman empire. Ulcinj was also an haven for corsairs from North Africa. They decorated their gun barrels with animal and humans figures, they even engraved their Italians gun locks from Brescia with figures. This decoration was made to please the taste of North Africans and mixed populations of Albanians living in Africa. Reference: Elgood, Arms of Greece, mainly p. 39-40 I think this information is useful not only for your gun, but also to understand the spread of Ottoman arms in North Africa...