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Originally Posted by fernando
Mine are of the small type ... and humble; no makers marks.
The flint one must be English. It also has the safety catch with the pin locking the frizzen; only that its lever push/pull tip is broken ... but the mechanism still works, though.
The percussion one is Belgium, judging by the Liege proof mark. It's got some nice silver wire decoration plus a little estucheon, on the stock.
It has a turn off barrel but, as so often with specimens of this type (so i read), there is no way to unscrew it.
Fernando
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Not humble at all Fernando!
In fact, both are very nice. Love the carved butt on the Belgium one! Very pretty.
I wouldn't want to use enough force to unscrew the barrels on these things after all these years.
Mine have carved grips, I should go and get a pic. :-)
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Pictures added.
