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Khyber Pass black powder pistols 1960's
rfanuke
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A friend got these pistols in the Khyber Pass area in 1964, and asked me to sell them for him. I'm going to offer them for sale on GunBroker if I can find any info on them and if they are worth selling. Check out the pic's and let me know your thoughts.
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IMO, D?cor firearms only. Not worth a lot but someone will buy them to finish off their gunroom, den or mancave.
+1,
Made specifically for sale, to tourists in the bazaar's. No collectors value, other than as wall hangers/conversation pieces in the man cave.
Agree likely not worth a lot.
Unless you can see markings on there somewhere, you're never going to be able to identify the maker or true provenance of the guns.
These types of guns are called "tourist" guns for obvious reason. Whether your particular ones were made specifically for tourists in the 20th century or made earlier, but sold to tourists as "antiques" may not be answerable. And I don't think it much matters because they're probably not going to be worth all that much either way.
I think you'd be lucky to get $150 for the both of them, but who knows.
This isn't the same thing, but I think the commentary here is good:
https://www.GunBroker.com/item/765353315
Elaborately decorated, early 19th century Afghan rifled musket. Caliber: 14 mm. This pattern is less common than Jezail. With a straight buttstock, the musket was mot likely influenced by Persian guns. This gun has a nice octagonal barrel with mechanical "Damascus" pattern.
The stock is elaborately decorated with mother of pearl inserts. English style flintlock, most likely supplied by English traders, or manufactured locally in English style (the more complex parts of Afghan guns were often taken from damaged foreign muskets, most notably the British Brown Bess). Lockplate displays some Arabic markings, that could be maker's, or arsenal's stamps. The fading word, "London" is partially visible on the lockplate. Some Arabic markings are painted on the horn buttplate. (etc)
In general, Kyber pass region has a long history of cloning Western arms by gunsmiths there. See here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khyber_Pass_copy
Keep the fancy stock & turn the rest of it into a nice bottle rocket launcher.