Do you have a Dzeferdar rifle?

[estcrh]

Originally Posted by Ibrahiim al Balooshi

See http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=13706 where Dom gives a translation on this weapon and also outlined at # 1.

See some more below and at http://nimcha.fr/3-balkans.htm where a nice comparison can be made of guns in the region...and the reason why I place the map...

the translation is not to good but nice chart.

[estcrh]

If you have not read this essay you should, it is very informative.

https://www.academia.edu/5414711/A_B...seum_Timisoara

or
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3j...ew?usp=sharing

[estcrh]

From the Met Museum, I am assuming that this is a dzeferdar with possibly an Indian barrel.

Balkan miquelet gun, 18th century, wood, steel, brass, niello, silver, mother-of-pearl, coral, turquoise, sapphire, ruby, L. 62 3/4 in. (159.4 cm), Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935, Met Museum.

[Kubur]

Originally Posted by estcrh

From the Met Museum, I am assuming that this is a dzeferdar with possibly an Indian barrel.

Oh yes, especially if you follow Elgood and Lebedynski, the Dzeferdar is a dinosaur of the old Turkish rifles who are themselves copies of old European ones.
They remained mostly on the Dalmatian coast during the 18th & 19th c.
For me the barrel is pure "Ottoman bling bling stones"...

[Kubur]

Originally Posted by estcrh

If you have not read this essay you should, it is very informative.

https://www.academia.edu/5414711/A_B...seum_Timisoara

or
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3j...ew?usp=sharing

Thank you very useful!!!