Thank you all for your thoughts. First, Battara, I dont think its silver but its certainly highly engraved on the metal. Could you clarify what you mean?
I think I found some more information about this make of the gun. If you look in "The arms of Greece and her Balkan Neighbors in the Ottoman Period" by Elgood, Chapter 11 on Balkan long guns, you'll see item 195 looks very similar to mine with even those brass holders along the barrel the same. There it is described as an "Arnautka with two-stage smoothbor barrel with flared muzzle (which mine also has though not pictured) and brass rear-sight, 18th century. Probably made in Brescia or Boka Kotorska for the nothern Albanian and Montenegrin market." Therefore I think Valjhun you're absolutely right, thanks very much. And thanks TVV I hadn't thought of the inscriber as being illiterate as a possibility, very interesting!
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