Featured Abby's Venezuelan pistols display ones or real ones?

*are these, not Abbys

One is short The other is long. They horn is full of lead shot. A South American guy bought them in to Australia about 20 years ago.

To me they look like they have a bit of age on them but they look pretty crude. Interesting that they have clips for the belt. I mean it's quite possible in South America that they made firearms in a little bit more of a rudimentary way because they had less money. But I haven't seen enough antique guns to know whether these were intended to be fired or are just a collecting thing?

The percussion cap mechanism works quite well that is you can pull it back and the trigger snaps it down.

What are your thoughts?

 

I think you'll find with a bit of on-line research that, during the Colonial Spanish era, Latin America sourced its firearms from Europe.

Debora

 

I'm not used to seeing the metal plate go so far down the handle past the trigger on this type of pistol........ and the belt / boot clips seem.....over the top.

@the blacksmith

any marks on the metal ....at all ?

 

I didn't see. I don't possess these. Guy wants 150aud for the lot.
A complicating issue is that if these are antique guns then to possess them in the state of New South Wales you need to join an antique arms society and do some paperwork. In other states in Australia you can possess an antique gun without any paperwork.

I'm not sure how interested I am but I am kind of intrigued as to whether or not these were made to be used as budget firearms or whether or not they are just kind of gimmicky display items maybe even tourist items.

 

I'd pass.....

 

I suggest you do a Google Images search for "flintlock" and compare this with what you find.

Debora

 

I think these would be percussion cap (or replicas of such)

 

The craftsmanship is no where near what one would expect of a genuine period example.

Debora

 

Like Komo, I'd pass too. Modern(ish) put together pistols, but made with a few old original parts, and badly put together as well. IMHO not worth the trouble. Sorry.