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Originally Posted by Fernando K
Hello
Several things call my attention. First, the knob and the piece that holds the barrel in its front, appear to be fused, instead of being chiseled. Second in the lock.La bowl is barely insinuated, the scratch of the frizeen is just muffled and the strangest, the shot block is round, not a flat blade.
Affectionately. Fernando K
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Dear Fernando,
You are right. I looked at the barrel nicely engraved with copper wire.
Unfortunately the thickness of the barrel is not the same at the muzzle and the light is not even drilled throught the barrel. For the lock it's true that the frizzen looks cast. Nevertheless it's a very good lock nothing compare to what you call tourist pistols.
Please look at my thread called
Fake pistols with real locks, real pistols with fake locks
http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...oroccan+pistol
Look also at
http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=20541
The first and the last Moroccan muskets belong to the same category,
old guns made in the late 19th and very early 20th (before 1918).
To be simplier and more clear we have at least two categories of guns here.
The very early tourist pistols if you like, but i prefer to say decorative as their quality is comparable to old ones (around 1880 to 1920) and the tourist guns from 1930 to our days.
I noticed two workshops where they produced this early type of guns, one in Morocco and one in Istanbul. I will post Turkish examples one day. One feature of these workshops is the use of old spare parts. Sometimes it's difficult to distinguish the recent from the old even for specialists...
Best,
Kubur