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Old 19th June 2017, 02:42 PM   #27
Kubur
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Originally Posted by corrado26
This wrong signature shows me that it is probably made in the Osmanic Empire. A French or Belgium gunmaker would have been able to write the LONDON-adress correctly because he knew the Roman letters, whereas a Turkish worker without knowledge of the european ABC used very often phantasy letters
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Yes it's exactly what I said!
But for me the engraving was made later.
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