Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post - Could use help identifying this flintlock pistol

tombstone777 · 6th September 2009, 04:47 PM

Hi Jim!

I too love to find out more about the provinence of these wonderful pieces of history and I will relay to you what little I know now. I inherited this from my sister-in-law a couple of weeks ago. Her Dad worked for Texaco I believe and he and his wife travelled extensively thoughout the world during his career and after retirement and I suppose you could consider him to have been a collector of sorts. He picked up weapons and other interesting pieces in his travels and, while I do not know where he got this particular gun, I'm sure that it was in the middle or near east, probably in the late 60's.

He passed away about 15 years ago and his wife has recently had multiple brain hemmorages which has rendered her all but comatose. So - no help there on where it was aquired. I will see if my sister-in-law can recall any stories about it - she does remember the story of how he aquired the WWII Katana (which I have another current post on) from a dutch sailor who claimed it was taken from a Japanese officer during the war.

I will pass along any more info that I receive so as to help in keeping the history of this piece alive. In the meantime I will work on cleaning it up a bit more to reveal more detail.

Any thoughts on how to clean the stock? It has quite a bit of inlaid wire (probably brass but could be silver - it's so patinated that I can't tell yet) and also bits of wire inserted almost like tiny, headless nails, in patterns along the inlaid wire.

I'll report back soon. Thanks again for the wealth of knowledge that's being shared!

6th September 2009, 04:47 PM	#8
tombstone777 Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 14	Hi Jim! I too love to find out more about the provinence of these wonderful pieces of history and I will relay to you what little I know now. I inherited this from my sister-in-law a couple of weeks ago. Her Dad worked for Texaco I believe and he and his wife travelled extensively thoughout the world during his career and after retirement and I suppose you could consider him to have been a collector of sorts. He picked up weapons and other interesting pieces in his travels and, while I do not know where he got this particular gun, I'm sure that it was in the middle or near east, probably in the late 60's. He passed away about 15 years ago and his wife has recently had multiple brain hemmorages which has rendered her all but comatose. So - no help there on where it was aquired. I will see if my sister-in-law can recall any stories about it - she does remember the story of how he aquired the WWII Katana (which I have another current post on) from a dutch sailor who claimed it was taken from a Japanese officer during the war. I will pass along any more info that I receive so as to help in keeping the history of this piece alive. In the meantime I will work on cleaning it up a bit more to reveal more detail. Any thoughts on how to clean the stock? It has quite a bit of inlaid wire (probably brass but could be silver - it's so patinated that I can't tell yet) and also bits of wire inserted almost like tiny, headless nails, in patterns along the inlaid wire. I'll report back soon. Thanks again for the wealth of knowledge that's being shared!