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Labeled as Japanese, however I don’t believe it is at all.
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Closest I’ve seen to this form is the top of this photo from the museum in Tbilisi, Georgia. The matchlock was acquired in Bukhara, modern day Uzbekistan
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Sam squanch said:
Chinese I think.
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Way out of my field, but there is a spitting image of your gun illustrated and labeled "Chinese" in my old tattered copy of a "A glossary of the construction decoration and use of arms and armor" on page 442
 
Gentlemen, thank you! I agree, it is most likely Chinese. I had only really seen the pistol grip no buttstock form before
 

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