Balkan Musket from Albania Arnautka with steel stock European barrel

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A very nice Balkan Albanian long gun Arnautka. Typically with the slim stock encased all in steel, these Ottoman guns were popular throughout the Albanian and northern Greek regions. With a prized italian barrel makred with lettering and makers marks, a large applied brass sight, engraved brass cappucine bands, the butt with a wooden panel, the whole inlaid with mosaic roundels at intervals.  circa 1800.   middle eastern

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Weight 8 kg

Balkan Musket from Albania Arnautka with steel stock European barrel

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