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    Posted: 30-Jun-2012 at 19:18

Three barrel Marston Derringer
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Great find Alani. The blade reminds me of my own Indo-persian axeThumbs Up
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Indian Tabar Battle axe matchlock combination weapon

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Wish i had the money for this piece of art. The engraving and ivory grips are exquisite

Does such a beautiful piece have any providence, Nick. Oh I do hope so! 
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Wish i had the money for this piece of art. The engraving and ivory grips are exquisite


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a big pocket knife with a 5½"  folding blade which folds out after pulling a screw in front under the barrels. Two separate 5½" barrels for caliber .48 percussion, smoothbores. Cockig the hammer causes the folding trigger / corkscrew to drop out of the frame. The percussion hammer are protective shaped to avoid a spark jumping to the other cap. The metal parts are kept in the white showing reasonable patina, the scales are very fine stag horn. The pistol is made during the 1850 -1860 period, shows no makers name or proof stamp, probably German hunting utensil. In good working order and excellent condition
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An odd-looking dagger pistol from the 19th century
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Originally posted by Nick1986

Not too sure as we've got photos of mace and warhammer pistols in this thread. What do you think Alani?
In that case, Nick, it would be a little bit churlish of us to not allow other combination weaponry.Smile
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Not too sure as we've got photos of mace and warhammer pistols in this thread. What do you think Alani?
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Does that really qualify as a blade, Nick?
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Victorian whip pistol
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Mallorean Arms BladeGun
The BladeGun is a semi-automatic heavy pistol with a large crescent shaped knife-blade attached in front of the trigger guard and grip. Also called the Samurai handgun, it incorporates styling found on the grips of katanas and Japanese kanji down the side of the slide and blade.
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Modern knife pistol
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Sounds about right. Tornier was active in the 1600s, so unless the gunstock was a reworked earlier piece, it was probably made by a gunsmith imitating the masterpieces of the older generation (possibly for the eastern market where the plain French gunstocks had not yet come into fashion)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/74612179/On-Rubens-Drawings
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Originally posted by Nick1986

 
Perhaps the maker of this gun was an apprentice of Tornier, or a rival gunsmith trying to copy his work?
I think I saw one piece by Tornier about one hundred and thirty years previous. Now unless I'm wrong on the date then potentially it could be an apprentice somewhere down the line, or even maybe a rival of theirs at that time. Still it would be interesting to find out who it was made by. 
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The extravagent decoration reminds me of the gunstocks of German wood-carver Konrad Tournier
I agree, although I think his work to be a little more intricate.

Perhaps the maker of this gun was an apprentice of Tornier, or a rival gunsmith trying to copy his work?
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Russian combination hunting sword and flintlock pistol. Circa 1735
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Originally posted by Nick1986

The extravagent decoration reminds me of the gunstocks of German wood-carver Konrad Tournier
I agree, although I think his work to be a little more intricate.
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Do you know anything about this axe-pistol Alani? The extravagent decoration reminds me of the gunstocks of German wood-carver Konrad Tournier
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German Ivory and Pearl-Inlaid Combination Flintlock/Dagger/Gun /Axe, c. 1750

Rare and Unique German Ivory and Pearl-Inlaid Combination Flintlock/Dagger/Gun /Axe, c. 1750

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