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Title: Unusual pistol
Post by: mazo kid on October 06, 2020, 12:42:07 PM

I have had this pistol for a while too. It was wire-brushed before I got it so any markings are gone.

Title: Re: Unusual pistol
Post by: mazo kid on October 06, 2020, 12:43:45 PM

Any ideas as to it's origin?

Title: Re: Unusual pistol
Post by: mazo kid on October 06, 2020, 12:45:37 PM

Engraving...what's left of it!

Title: Re: Unusual pistol
Post by: Len on October 07, 2020, 11:11:24 AM

Yeah, peculiar, but nice! The lock looks different from what would be expected from an 1830-to-1840 caplock pistol. Has it been converted from flintlock?
Would you mind explain how that lock fuunctions?

Title: Re: Unusual pistol
Post by: Captainkirk on October 07, 2020, 11:24:40 AM

JMHO but it appears as if a snail/frizzen cover has been added to convert a flintlock to percussion?

Title: Re: Unusual pistol
Post by: Hawg on October 07, 2020, 02:49:49 PM

It's a miquelet lock. Probably Spanish in origin and probably restocked as well. I don't think I've ever seen a miquelet/percussion conversion before.

Title: Re: Unusual pistol
Post by: mazo kid on October 07, 2020, 06:14:27 PM

I sure don't know about a percussion conversion. There is seemingly no provision that a frizzen was ever on the pistol that I can see. I thought maybe that assembly about the hammer might be a safety, but it doesn't appear to move.

Title: Re: Unusual pistol
Post by: Hawg on October 07, 2020, 06:59:12 PM

Maybe it was cobbled together out of parts but there's no doubt the lock is a miquelet. Or rather started out as one.

Title: Re: Unusual pistol
Post by: mazo kid on October 08, 2020, 09:03:37 AM

Yes, agreed. And just maybe the lock was re-shaped, thus getting rid of a frizzen screw hole. Just thinking out loud here.

Title: Re: Unusual pistol
Post by: mazo kid on October 14, 2020, 01:22:39 PM

I pulled the lock off to see the workings. It is a small lock and surprisingly complex. The sear works laterally (horizontally) through the lock plate.

Title: Re: Unusual pistol
Post by: Len on October 15, 2020, 01:14:27 PM

Very unusual. I never saw anything like that. How is the feel of the trigger?

Title: Re: Unusual pistol
Post by: mazo kid on October 18, 2020, 10:56:58 AM

Len, the trigger is quite light, with NO creep.  Very crisp.

Title: Re: Unusual pistol
Post by: mazo kid on October 18, 2020, 10:58:49 AM

One last picture showing the lock at full cock. There is no half cock position.

Title: Re: Unusual pistol
Post by: toot on November 05, 2020, 06:00:45 AM

it is very interesting.