Guns From Space? Maybe not!

[fernando]

Originally Posted by kronckew

Aha! now i know what that spikey thing is in the other thread, you tie a rope to it and yourself, and drive it into the mountain to keep you from falling off while you tend the grape vines in the douro valley. (i & the then wife spent two weeks driving around northern portugal a few years back, loved it. especially liked staying in small pensions in fortified hilltop villages in the area. she was a vegetarian, so had a bit of trouble with the food, and ate green salads for 2 wks. but i loved it. )

Then you must come back ... and visit me at the sea side . You may bring Blue and Millie ; we shall introduced them to my "grandson" Afonso (my daughter's doggy) .
... And no green salads for them; we can spare some Afonso's dry biscuits .
Fernando

[Gonzalo G]

With all due respect, they look like european pistols to me, though decorated in a moroccan fashion. By the way, spaniards forged (not produced) wootz from India, and made mechanical damascus until mid 19th Century. There is documental evidence of this fact. The style of the pistols, does not reminds me any of the styles seen in North Africa, the Middle East and Turkey. Of course, I can be wrong.
Regards

Gonzalo