Original 19th Century Greek or Balkan Ornate Silver Clad Miquelet Lock Rat Tail Pistol with Markings - c.1805 Japanese Ordnance Blade has US and Ordnance

Blade has US and Ordnance flaming cannonball and a excellent condition parkerized finish

with no play in the barrel/frame connection

and the date 1870

the M1 carbine itself was markedly superior to the

• a weapons company (compagnie d'engins)

Original 19th Century Greek or Balkan Ornate Silver Clad Miquelet Lock Rat Tail Pistol with Markings - c.1805 Japanese Ordnance Blade has US and OrdnanceOriginal Item: Only One Available. These were often referred to as Miquelet "Rat Tail" Pistols because of the shape of the stock. These were the traditional muzzle loading pistol of the Balkans and Greece in the early to mid 1800s. Designed to be worn in a sash around one's waist the weapon is very streamlined in appearance. The wood stock is profusely decorated with embossings of fabulously worked Silver, which could possibly be cast pieces which