A pair of little pistols for ID ... please

[Raf]

Originally Posted by fernando

Not sure what your point was . Given the fluted barrel and side plate best guess is it actually North Italian.
I would like to think a Venetian courtesan might have caried a pistol like this even if it wasn't of the finest quality. Thats the pistol not the girl.

[fernando]

Originally Posted by Raf

Not sure what your point was . Given the fluted barrel and side plate best guess is it actually North Italian.

I was only smiling to your saying that ladies are not expected to load their own pistols.
But speaking of little pistols with barrels "looking like they were cut off", here is one that i once owned.


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