Greek flintlock rifles

[rickystl]

Hi Coorado.

What a great looking and interesting Greek long gun. I really like how the carving on the butt stock blend so well with the rest of the gun decoration.
It appears to have come with it's original wood tompin, used to keep the muzzle/barrel dry while carrying during foul weather. Very neat!!! Usually these type of accessories end up being lost over the years.
I'm not quite sure from the photos, but the lock appears to have a "roller" on the frizzen spring (?) Can you confirm this ?
Again, a wonderful example from your collection.

Rick

[corrado26]

Yes, the lock has a roller frizzen
corrado26

[stelio]

Very nice comments Rick.
First time I see a barrel cover for this gun.I know they protected them with some kind of cover or cloth but I have never seen them before. Corrado i would like to ask you if you have done some maintenance on its wooden parts? The iron parts know that they are very good metals where with a little oil they clean faster than the bronze.
Again, congratulations.
the best
Stelios

[corrado26]

Originally Posted by stelio

Corrado i would like to ask you if you have done some maintenance on its wooden parts?

No, I have done nothing to the wooden stock, I just cleaned the iron and brass parts. By the way: The barrel bands are not upside down, their shape is so that they cannot be installed inversely - their longer underside makes something like a funnel for the ramrod.
corrado26

[Kubur]

Originally Posted by corrado26

No, I have done nothing to the wooden stock, I just cleaned the iron and brass parts. By the way: The barrel bands are not upside down, their shape is so that they cannot be installed inversely - their longer underside makes something like a funnel for the ramrod.
corrado26

Good, so now the only guns with this kind of barrel bands are found in North Africa, especially in Algeria.
Lot of people from the Balkans (including Greece) worked in North Africa from Algeria to Egypt.
Would it possible that your Greek rifle was done for a Greek mercenary but in North Africa??
Is it an Italian stamp on your barrel?

[stelio]

Thank you Corrado.
I asked you why in the photo the deep patterns seem to have the black color of the time while the other points are clear.
As Kubur rightly said the barrel rings are upside down,
the rings to hold the barrel always go with the big point on the upper side.

Best

Stelios

[corrado26]

Originally Posted by stelio

the rings to hold the barrel always go with the big point on the upper side.

thank you, convinced!
corrado26

[rickystl]

Originally Posted by corrado26

Yes, the lock has a roller frizzen
corrado26

OK. I thought it looked like a roller. A late flintlock feature. Very neat. You don't ofter see this on Ethno guns.

Rick

[Kubur]

Originally Posted by rickystl

It appears to have come with it's original wood tompin, used to keep the muzzle/barrel dry while carrying during foul weather. Very neat!!! Usually these type of accessories end up being lost over the years.
Rick

Thank you Rick, I didn't know about these things. I guess they can appear if we know they exist...
OK I have a question: do you think that the barrel bands are original?
And if they are, why are they turned upside down?
Thanks

Kubur