Miquelet Pistol, decoration and maker questions

fernando · 4th December 2012, 06:02 PM

You are quite right in that these things are often a dilemma to solve.
Weapons smiths weren't necessarily fine writers; the are lots of their names wrongly spelled.
The barrel maker is often a person other than the lock maker; the similarity in both marks lettering would just be a coincidence.
Cerra doen'st sound spanish (Castillian); Cierra would sound better ... but Sierra would sound best.
Serrat is a Catalunian name and matches with the lock mark letters; who knows?
XVII century ? I would be deeply surprised

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4th December 2012, 06:02 PM	#6
fernando (deceased) Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Portugal Posts: 9,694	You are quite right in that these things are often a dilemma to solve. Weapons smiths weren't necessarily fine writers; the are lots of their names wrongly spelled. The barrel maker is often a person other than the lock maker; the similarity in both marks lettering would just be a coincidence. Cerra doen'st sound spanish (Castillian); Cierra would sound better ... but Sierra would sound best. Serrat is a Catalunian name and matches with the lock mark letters; who knows? XVII century ? I would be deeply surprised .