21st December 2014, 06:59 PM | #5 |
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I once owned a very similar example, yours has more stamps on it though.
My suhl carbine, also inlaid with bone plaques was made for the saxony market or even the Polish nobility. I would date this carbine to 1640-1650s. I couldn't find the date of 1592 on the barrel in your pictures. The lettering ISE (?) is most likely what you meant? The pin holding the trigger could be a replacement. Still a nice gun on its own right. |
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