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The description uses very careful wording. So if a would be buyer wanted to return the pistol for a refund the seller could claim that he never said it was an "authentic" original. More or less the Sargent Shultz claim: "I know nothing". The over-clever wording does not give a comfortable feeling.
Another one of these pistols, with even less faux finish just sold two weeks ago on GB for $600.00. Amazing.
While there are unscrupulous dealers out there. It still also amazes me how many dealers in modern arms for 25+ years have so little knowledge of antique muzzle loading guns.
Mirouku (or whoever) must have made thousands of these pistols.
Rick
I said it and you said it. Many posters here are WAY more knowledgeable than many of the so-called expert dealers, but the fact remains that many innocents are still being taken in by something that has the semblance of being old but is, in fact, younger than me.
Some of them, like the dealer in this instance, are using weasel-wording to avoid admitting that it is a replica - enough to fool some poor sap eager to close a deal on what looks at first glance to be a real antique. Ten minutes of handling REAL guns of the period would disavow him forever of assuming that because it looks old, it IS old. Again, as many here would agree, just going through the action of cocking a genuine firearm has that hard-to-describe 'feel' that can only be replicated by the skill and artifice of a master of his craft, like our own Dave Person. I have a few genuinely old long arms, and a few modern versions of the same thing - the 'clicks' of the real thing are chalk and cheese by comparison with even the best of my newer guns.
There is also a whole heap of misinformation around, much of which could be dispelled in ten minutes by asking here, as many people, thankfully, do.
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