Thank you very much for the informative information about this more than strange pistol, which appears to be quite old due to its condition, but is not. If I remember correctly, I discovered and photographed the pistol during the preparations for the Sotheby's auction at Marienburg in 2004 and it was clear to me even then that this was a piece of historicism. However, to this day I am completely unaware of the meaning of the whole thing: it cannot be a forgery, as this requires an original, which never existed. But the fact that a gunsmith would use time and valuable materials to create something that never existed is more than puzzling.
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