I have a few obsevations I am gonna throw out there regarding this item.
First as many has mentioned before, the lock is newly made, and crudely as well. From what I have gathered they are making these around Kabul area, mainly for sale for the tourist market and to poeple who have no idea what is what.
Second the barrel, to me it looks to be of original lenght, one really bad habbit poeple have, which pisses me off, is they scrape off gold from the engraved portions of the barrells, as it seems to have been done to this barrell. The forward barrell band seems to be new however.
I am not familiar with the stock design but the stock looks original as well, note the dents on the wood and the imprints of the original lock screws on the stock.
Final conclution, stock and barrel are original to each other, but the lock is new. This is something very common here. The locks get damaged or whatevere and or sold seperately and they just add a fake lock to the barrel and stock and sell it at a much cheaper price that they would a complete untouched item.
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