Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post - Help needed with the ID of this flintlock pistol

Kubur · 28th December 2015, 08:25 AM

Hi Guys,

I did some researches about this pistol.
And I' m sure that this pistol comes from Tunisia.
The pistol has some features of the North African pistols such as the nails (Morocco), the decorated lock (Algeria), but the overall shape and the mother-of-pearl decorations are Tunisians.
I attach some photographs of a pistol recently sold with a barrel signed "made in Tunis"... You'll see some similarities. Plus I will post a pistol that I got recently very similar...
Nevertheless these pistols present strong influences with Balkans firearms, especially in Elgood (Arms of Greece, p. 207) You can see the connexion with the Rat tail pistols...

Kubur

28th December 2015, 08:25 AM	#8
Kubur Member Join Date: Jun 2013 Posts: 2,145	Hi Guys, I did some researches about this pistol. And I' m sure that this pistol comes from Tunisia. The pistol has some features of the North African pistols such as the nails (Morocco), the decorated lock (Algeria), but the overall shape and the mother-of-pearl decorations are Tunisians. I attach some photographs of a pistol recently sold with a barrel signed "made in Tunis"... You'll see some similarities. Plus I will post a pistol that I got recently very similar... Nevertheless these pistols present strong influences with Balkans firearms, especially in Elgood (Arms of Greece, p. 207) You can see the connexion with the Rat tail pistols... Kubur Attached Images