.62 caliber. 12.25" three stage pinned round barrel. NSN. Bright finish, brass furniture, white metal barrel shroud, hardwood stock. Single shot muzzleloading flintlock pistol made from some French parts for the Middle Eastern market. Lock marked in script indicating production at the Royal Manufactory at Charleville, and appears to be in original flint configuration with an apparently replaced frizzen. Barrel with fake London proof and touch marks. Highly decorated tin barrel shroud with false rammer in the typical 19th century Middle Eastern style. Thumb plate is a crude replacement, brass furniture lightly engraved, butt with Islamic imagery. {ANTIQUE}