The barrel inscription is hardly to be red but could be "JOH KROPS 1771" and the signature at the lockplate is "KELLHEIM", eventually the today city of Kehlheim in Bavaria. Unfortunately Kellheim or gunmakers working there are not mentionned in the "Neue Stöckel". As Fernando already said this piece is part of a pair of flintlock-pocketpistols, transverted to the then modern percussion system in the 1830/40s
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