Show us your ball butt.... pistol

[Kubur]

Show us your ball butt pistols!
Yes I know, it's easy, but in fact it's a very serious thread about the Turkish ball butt pistol. The shape is close to the Caucasian pistol but with a lot of inlays: wires, mother of pearl, coral... The lock can be Caucasian or "European".
I just enclose some examples recently sold.
If you have any of these pistols...
Also do you know where they came from and if they were really used?
Kubur

[Kubur]

another one with Turkish / Balkans lock

[Ivo]

Hello,
here are pictures of mine.
Regards,
Ivo

[qusko]

Dear forum members,

I've bought attached balkan ball butt pistol. Do you know how barrel was attached to the stock? There is no place for a pin and it is only fixed by the screw on top of the lock.

Example I have was with a band, but for me it looks like not original one (replacement). In some other examples I saw silver wire, but it also looks like a temporary solution (even though .. maybe from the past)

[Kubur]

Very good catch congratulations!
Please do not use a bad Moroccan band!
Just a simple metal wire, iron, lead or copper will do the job
Look at the photo above and let us see the result

And here my ball butt, I let the pistol as it is.

[Fernando K]

Hello

I wonder if the barrel is not fixed to stock for some kind of payment

Affectionately

[qusko]

Originally Posted by Kubur

Very good catch congratulations!
Please do not use a bad Moroccan band!
Just a simple metal wire, iron, lead or copper will do the job
Look at the photo above and let us see the result

Thanks Kubur ! Apart of barrel, there are some mother of pearl inlays I need to focus on (someone has tried to fix it but without required precision : ) )

Of course Moroccan band does not fit and the wire is a way to go. Just wondered how other barrels without a wire are attached to the stock ...

Originally Posted by Kubur

And here my ball butt, I let the pistol as it is.

Very nice example. I saw him in your other post:
http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...ht=ball+pistol

Can you share what have you used as a red cover of some inlays you have there (it was not a coral per what I see)? I am quite interested as I see that red decorations in ottoman pistols/muskets from Africa, Balkans, ..

Do you have a barrel fixed with a pin?