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Hello everybody and Seasons Greetings,
A friend of mine sent me these photos of a long brass covered miquelet Rasak gun, now what's unusual with it, is that it has a firing mechanism taken from a Ottoman gun known as a Shishane, on both sides of it's beautiful decorated barrel there seem to be inscribed some numbers in arabic on one side of it and some letters on the other side. Can anyone decypher what they mean? |
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Salaams Armatolos, I thought to place some artwork to support your thread; Regards, Ibrahiim al Balooshi. Last edited by Ibrahiim al Balooshi; 31st December 2013 at 01:46 PM. |
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Regards, Ibrahiim al Balooshi. Last edited by Ibrahiim al Balooshi; 30th December 2013 at 04:52 PM. |
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Salaams all... Meanwhile more atmosphere courtesy http://www.vikingsword.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002363.html
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Arnauts ( ﺍﺭﻧﺎﻭﺩ); old term used mainly from Turks and by extension by European authors during the Ottoman Empire. A derivate of the Turkish Arvanid (Arnavut) ( ﺍﺭﻭﺍﻧﻴﺪ ), which derives from the Greek Arvanites . Last edited by Armatolos; 30th December 2013 at 06:18 PM. |
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Salaams Apologies for mixing up Balkan and Moroccan ... I shall put that right !
There is the date ! Regards, Ibrahiim al Balooshi ![]() Last edited by Ibrahiim al Balooshi; 30th December 2013 at 07:16 PM. |
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That's a Tancica between his legs! any hints about the date? |
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Very nice rifle, Armatolos. I believe we can clearly see a date. Assuming that the last digit 0 is not written, then a dating of 1220 will correspond to a date of 1807-1808. I actually think the lock is consistent with the rifle. Shishane and boyliya locks tend to be a bit different, while the lock on this rasak is similar to locks on Albanian pistols and long guns. I know that a lot of the preserved museum examples have French style locks, but the original locks must have been Balkan miquelet ones, with the French locks supplanting those when imports increased during the 19th century.
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Salaams All Note to Library...More of the Balkan stuff...and some Ottoman Guns.
![]() In addition see https://archive.org/stream/balkansal...e/n28/mode/2up which is a free book by William Milligan Sloan from the 1914 edition. All readable and downloadable for nothing. Regards, Ibrahiim al Balooshi. Last edited by Ibrahiim al Balooshi; 31st December 2013 at 04:58 PM. |
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I am putting up some more details.
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The mystery is over!
It reads Mā shāʼ Allāh ( ﻣﺎ ﺷﺎﺀ ﺍﻟﻠﻪ ) but it inscribed by an illiterate artist and thus it is written backwards!! The same applies for the inscribed date on the other side! |
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