GERMAN PERCUSSION PISTOL HELP

MFI

March 27, 2015 12:24

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rufe-snow

March 27, 2015 12:52
It looks like it was originally a flintlock belt/overcoat pistol, converted to percussion. It has a swamped barrel. Must have been decent quality to begin with. Blank lock plate doesn't look correct. Maybe when it was converted, they replaced the original lock plate?

I believe C.L.V.D. was the maker. The word FECHT could be interpreted as FECIT, denoting fabrication in Berlin.

Because of the Berlin marking, might be of value to a European collector. After 150+ years, and 2 world wars. Not much old German stuff, still on the market.
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Spider7115

March 27, 2015 12:53
Christian Ludwig von der (CLVD) Fecht is recorded as a gunmaker in Berlin between 1769 and the year of his death in 1827.
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