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Originally Posted by opoefc
Joe, No side plate? That smells like middle east, Persia to India to Pakistan, etc , to me. Typical of cottage industry firearms from there. They are fun guns to reverse engineer forensically. Sounds like some early firearms designer found out that a taper in the cylinder works as a Pre-Forcing cone to help stabilize home made bullets. Ed.
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Don't think so. Too well made and the parts are identical to guns with sideplates and Belgian/Liege proofs. Belgian manufacture for the Officer's stores in St. Petersburg and Moscow in the 1880s.
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Yet another example
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Cyrillic marked, caliber unknown
Joe