I paid a visit to my son's museum, his upstairs room which is filled with lots of skulls and taxidermy. The teeth on my musket definitely match those on the Russian boar mount he has, the teeth that are on the lower jaw between the tusks. My son has a replica wolf skull as well as a real coyote skull, and there is not a good match of the teeth on theses to the ones on the gun. The leather on the buttstock ball could be wolf, as there is the Arabian wolf in Yemen, an endangered species.
The big question mark on this gun is the Saudi Arabian emblem embedded on the receiver area, with resin. This emblem was probably what is left of a Saudi military pin. Even though (as stated by a forum member) it is not legal for a Saudi citizen to use this emblem as decoration it's possible it fell into the hands of a Yemeni, who acquired it during the border conflicts. It also shows that this gun has been in use up through modern times, if only as a ceremonial piece.
Regards,
Andrew Hite
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4th May 2025, 07:38 PM
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