SMALL PERCUSSION BOX-LOCK FOR COMMENT

[Fernando K]

Hello, Fernando and Dana:

I still have many doubts .... Here I upload a picture (I have no scanner) from an Italian magazine of a sale of a pair of pistols, like the one we are dealing, in box with accessories What is it but a stick load, which is above and to the left?
Fernando: In the link you provided me, or something similar Internet, described the "false damask", made ​​with a drawing eaten by acid. I think this is the case. I have some real Damascus barrels with very little contrast between the different kinds of steel, but with different coloring.
It strikes me, in the pepper-box deep surface contrast. I am attaching the barrel of a muzzle-loading pistol Spanish, cheap, with the barrel etched to mimic the damask.
It's easier to scratch the barrel, this is separate from the body, and to clean it once manufactured.

Affectionately. Fernando K

[dana_w]

It's hard to say from the photo, but they made version of these pistols with fixed barrels (non turn-off). Some people call these "night pistols" or "night stand pistols". See this post by Fernando. It could also just be a cleaning rod.