This in picture is one of my examples from my ancestors, boka kotorska is little known in the world, but on Balkan it is famous for Ledenice pistols and Pala swords and knives.
Silver "shells" are cast in mould, and put together two halfs of them, 99% of pieces i encountered are made this way.
Beneath them is wooden stock.
There is allso gold plated version with mercury technique of gold plating caled Zlatka or Goldie.
They were only made in Boka kotorska, some authors place them in Greece and Albania but that is not thrue, greek silver pistols are very much diferent, and they never had this style of raised silverwork, let alone albanian ones.
And about Đurđica Petrović book i would skip that, it is full of nonsense and serbian propaganda (for example she proclaims sword schiavonesca which is venetian and there is hungarian version, she proclaimed it serbian sword becouse it has S shaped crossguard, and in serbia they write S in cirilic C, better to awoid book).
You could ask in Kotor museum or Perast museum for more details, but i think that it is zero chance, even goldsmiths in Kotor today, they dont know, im there almost every few months it is my family hometown, that art form is forgoten long time ago.
Are the pistols yours?
They are very nice examples, i would say made for order of some pasha or vezir.
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