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An 18th Century Typical Pirate Form Corsairs Long Barrel Holster Pistol Likely a Balkan Maker, a Great Gift Idea An 18th Century Typical Pirate Form Corsairs Long Barrel Holster Pistol Likely a Balkan Maker, a Great Gift Idea An 18th Century Typical Pirate Form Corsairs Long Barrel Holster Pistol Likely a Balkan Maker, a Great Gift Idea An 18th Century Typical Pirate Form Corsairs Long Barrel Holster Pistol Likely a Balkan Maker, a Great Gift Idea An 18th Century Typical Pirate Form Corsairs Long Barrel Holster Pistol Likely a Balkan Maker, a Great Gift Idea An 18th Century Typical Pirate Form Corsairs Long Barrel Holster Pistol Likely a Balkan Maker, a Great Gift Idea An 18th Century Typical Pirate Form Corsairs Long Barrel Holster Pistol Likely a Balkan Maker, a Great Gift Idea An 18th Century Typical Pirate Form Corsairs Long Barrel Holster Pistol Likely a Balkan Maker, a Great Gift Idea An 18th Century Typical Pirate Form Corsairs Long Barrel Holster Pistol Likely a Balkan Maker, a Great Gift Idea An 18th Century Typical Pirate Form Corsairs Long Barrel Holster Pistol Likely a Balkan Maker, a Great Gift Idea

An 18th Century Typical Pirate Form Corsairs Long Barrel Holster Pistol Likely a Balkan Maker, a Great Gift Idea

A very inexpensive, original, 18th century pirate pistol. Obvious signs of battle close combat use, hence the price, but this is a fascinating piece of piratical history. What a fabulous gift this could be from the original seafaring days of galleons and pirates from the Spanish Maine.

Finely carved walnut stock, long holster barrel beautifully chisseled and inlaid with poincon. chisseled brass buttcap, traditional early banana shaped lock. An Italianate style flintlock, made in the area of the Mediterranean, used throughout Europe, the Caribbean and the Americas in the 18th and continually of to the early 19th century in the Napoelonic Wars and throughout the Mediterranean and Ottoman Empire. This is exactly the type of flintlock one sees, and in fact expects to see, in all the old Hollywood 'Pirate' films.

A beautifully sprauncy sidearm, with long barrel. This is an original, honest and impressive antique flintlock that rekindles the little boy in all of us who once dreamt of being Errol Flynn, Swash-Buckling across the Spanish Maine under the Jolly Roger. This super piece may very well have seen service with one of the old Corsairs of the Barbary Coast, in a tall masted Galleon, slipping it's way down the coast of the Americas, to find it's way home to Port Royal, or some other nefarious port of call in the Caribbean. It is exactly the very form of weapon that was in use in the days of the Caribbean pirates and privateers, as their were no regular patterns of course.

It bears all the usual signs of close hand-to-hand combat signs as pistols of this type were fired and then swapped hands, to be used as clubs, alongside the pirates cutlass. Priced accordingly, at only around a third of the price an undamaged similar example might be! But, absolutely all part of its character, so at all not detrimental to its historical context. Single side screw lacking, and contemporary combat service small elements of wood damage near the forend, replaced ramrod {now fixed in place}.

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