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7th December 2018, 06:15 PM
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Oh yes
100 % Tunisian / North African look in our forum with these key words plus the lock looks very Spanish or Portuguese to me |
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7th December 2018, 06:17 PM
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Thanks Kubur! Are the photos visible allright? Or you have to download them?
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7th December 2018, 07:42 PM
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10th December 2018, 08:00 AM
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Now they are working!
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10th December 2018, 10:16 AM
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Just to add something the butt is very Ottoman and i'll place your gun in the 18th c. not the 19th c.
Tunisian as i said and you have something similar in Tirri's book... |
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10th December 2018, 07:01 PM
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I do not believe that this gun is Tunisian or in fact North African. The "boxy" butt profile IMHO is all wrong for that region.
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11th December 2018, 09:37 AM
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Yes the butt / stock is probably Turkish or from the Balkans. The lock is Sardinian according to Tirri but I think more at a Spanish or a Portuguese lock. The decoration is pure Tunisian. Now if you don't have it, buy Elgood's book on the Balkans, he explains how Ottoman guns were exported to North Africa and Tunisia and fitted for the local market. So yes this gun is Tunisian but with some pieces from all over the Meditteranean. Look at the so-called Ottoman Balkans guns they are fitted with Italian lock and canons, but they are not Italians... I hope that I manged to convince you... 
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