Albanian Tanchika Long Gun

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Originally Posted by ariel

Do you think that the name of the master on the barrel was locally transcribed? There seem to be strange letters and the whole name is not very comprehensible. Local very old fake?
They have done it a lot to inflate the value and to brag between bottles of Ouzo:-))

Hi Ariel.
At the moment, I think this is just a spurious group of English style letters with a non-existant name to add a perceived value to the gun. Except for one upside down "A", the so called name reads the same wheather read from the left or right side of the gun. And the letters appear to be stamped rather than engraved. Strange. Never seen one marked like this.
Rick.