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<p>[QUOTE="Only a Poor Old Man, post: 4987647, member: 111037"]Well as the bay of Kotor has been mentioned twice already in this thread, I can't resist adding a pic of a flintlock pistol from my antique arms collection that was most likely manufactured there:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1198260[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This was most likely originally an ottoman pistol as evident from the Islamic calligraphy on the barrel. In the start of the 1800s there were a lot of skirmishes and mini rebellions against the Turks in the region, so it is quite likely that this was a captured pistol that was redecorated in the typical Kotor style for the Greek market of the era. The Balkan regions of Kotor, Prizren in Kosovo, and Ioannina in Greece were quite famous for the silver-ornate pistols that they produced in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Unfortunately this is not silver, but white metal, so a poor man's version. The carbine in the background is a dutch snaphaunce lock that dates from the 16th century and was originally a wheellock.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Only a Poor Old Man, post: 4987647, member: 111037"]Well as the bay of Kotor has been mentioned twice already in this thread, I can't resist adding a pic of a flintlock pistol from my antique arms collection that was most likely manufactured there: [ATTACH=full]1198260[/ATTACH] This was most likely originally an ottoman pistol as evident from the Islamic calligraphy on the barrel. In the start of the 1800s there were a lot of skirmishes and mini rebellions against the Turks in the region, so it is quite likely that this was a captured pistol that was redecorated in the typical Kotor style for the Greek market of the era. The Balkan regions of Kotor, Prizren in Kosovo, and Ioannina in Greece were quite famous for the silver-ornate pistols that they produced in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Unfortunately this is not silver, but white metal, so a poor man's version. The carbine in the background is a dutch snaphaunce lock that dates from the 16th century and was originally a wheellock.[/QUOTE]
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