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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 10624296, member: 2844&quot;]Beautiful pistol, and another vote for Ottoman empire, possibly 19th century.</p><p>MOP inlay was done a lot on Afghan firearms as well, but the style of the silver looks more Turkish. </p><p>The silver needs a good polish, but right now iooks like it is silver and niello, which was a specialty of Bursa, not far from Istanbul. If it still looks like niello when it is clean<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" />, Bursa could be a place to look into.</p><p><br /></p><p>I agree, the powder flask look like the brass repros we used to get from Turkey and Greece in the 1960s and 70s.</p><p>The flask and the pistol were probably just thrown together to make it look complete. There is a huge difference in quality, so no way the original owner of the pistol ever used such a roughly cast brass flask.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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