Attractive Well Built Mediterranean/Balkan Flintlock Pistol
Guns International #: 100541197 Seller's Inventory #: 28380
Category: Antique Pistols - Flintlock -
Seller's Information
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Seller: Joe Salter com
Company: Down East Antiques - Joe Salter
Member Since: 9/10/10
First Name: Garrick-March-Jim-Joe
Last Name: Salter
State: New Hampshire
Zip: 03031
Country: United States
Phone: (603) 732-4000
Fax: (603) 732-4200
Platinum Seller
Number of Active Listings: 1200
Total Number of Listings: 20216
Seller: FFL Dealer
Return Policy: 3 day inspection and return policy on used guns.
FREE SHIPPING FOR ORDERS OVER $500! We also have a 30 day Inspection Period and NOT a 3 day Inspection.
Payment Types Accepted: We take all major credit cards with NO CREDIT CARD FEES! Also Check or Money order.
About Us: Joe Salter has been in the Antique and Collector Weapons business for 60 years as both a collector and dealer. Our company is based in Southern New Hampshire and we have had an internet based store front for the past 20 years. We are federally licensed and deal in all types of firearms and related material. We offer free Shipping for orders over $500.
Description:
NSN, .65 caliber, 12” barrel with a very good, lightly pitted bore. This is a handsome and nicely embellished pistol that has an overall speckled pewter patina on the barrel and the lock. The pistol exhibits little to no pitting around the touchhole, and there are three deeply struck, but indistinct European proofs at the breech. The breech itself is decorated with a single tarnished brass band ahead of the tang, and has decorated transition bands where the barrel changes from octagonal at the breech to round. The lock has a rounded banana-shaped lockplate with a graceful swan-necked cock and thin, engraved decorations throughout, including some simulated writing underneath the iron pan and on the exterior of the trigger guard bow. There is no provision for a front sight and it looks as though the barrel may have been shortened slightly at some point in the past. The extensively relief carved walnut stock is in good plus condition with raised floral spray embellishments and intricate inlaid brass wire decorations surrounding the flared, tarnished brass buttcap. The buttcap, trigger guard with urn and palm frond finial, and ramrod fittings were lightly cleaned at one time, but have since begun to reacquire a mellow, ochre-yellow patina throughout. A lozenge-shaped metal escutcheon with very intricate geometric decorations is present on the back of the grip. The wood has a few scattered handling marks and blemishes as well as a small chip missing from the nose of the forend, and a hairline with-the-grain crack running back from the nose opposite the chip. The pistol comes with half of an original wooden ramrod, but the tip is broken off and partially unravelled brass wire wrap is present just behind the muzzle. The lock spring is exceptionally tight, but the lock is still fully functional nevertheless. This is a very nice looking antique pistol with a rather more skillful level of woodcarving than is usually encountered. Antique
SOLD
Antique: Yes
Manufacturer: Balkan
Model: Flintlock
Caliber Info: .65
Gauge Info: .65