Perplexing Mark On Flintlock Holster Pistol

[fernando]

Hi Dana,
Let us see what knowledged members say but, you must be prepaired for those marks being meaningless .

[dana_w]

Originally Posted by fernando

Hi Dana,
Let us see what knowledged members say but, you must be prepaired for those marks being meaningless .

I'll try not to be disappointing if no one knows, but I've been really supersized by what I have learned here at the forum.

[corrado26]

This is a Spanish cavalry pistol M 1781 (after Juan L. Calvo, Armamentos de Munición en las Fuerzas Armadas Espanolas). Cock with ringscrew and its upper lip are original and not from a miquelet pistol. Its sideplate is very characteristic.
corrado26

[dana_w]

Originally Posted by corrado26

This is a Spanish cavalry pistol M 1781 (after Juan L. Calvo, Armamentos de Munición en las Fuerzas Armadas Espanolas). Cock with ringscrew and its upper lip are original and not from a miquelet pistol. Its sideplate is very characteristic.
corrado26

Thanks so much corrado26. Can you scan the page from Juan Calvo's publication for me? I wish more of Calvo's publications were in English.

[fernando]

Originally Posted by corrado26

This is a Spanish cavalry pistol M 1781 (after Juan L. Calvo, Armamentos de Munición en las Fuerzas Armadas Espanolas). Cock with ringscrew and its upper lip are original and not from a miquelet pistol. Its sideplate is very characteristic.
corrado26

Good shot, Corrado. It must be the same pistol present in Calvó's other work, Armamento Español en la Guerra de la Independencia, page 37. Only that this time he doesn't call it 'M 1781' but 'dated 1781' ... with a lock model 1753 of the French style.
But what troubles me in the example posted by Dana is that stamp on the lock. No rational lockmaker or arsenal would stamp a mark in the inverted position. This certainly was stamped afterwards, assuming this pistol is original. Also the lettering doesn't seem to make much sense .

[dana_w]

Originally Posted by fernando

Also the lettering doesn't seem to make much sense .

I hear that.

Do you have an image from Calvo's book Fernando?

[dana_w]

As to the strange lettering, check out this image from Spanish Military Weapons In Colonial America 1700-1821 page 48.

[Fernando K]

Hey there

For me, it is a good copy of the Spanish gun, produced in Arab countries, who signed with some incomprehensible inscriptions

Fernando K

[fernando]

Originally Posted by dana_w

I hear that.

Do you have an image from Calvo's book Fernando?

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Yes,


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