Old pistol

[billd]

My boss came into work last week with a pistol.  It was his fathers, who recently passed away.  He wants to give the gun to his grandson and ask me if I could find out a little about it.  He knows it's not valuable, but would like to know where it was made and when.  

All I know about it is his dad lived in NE PA and aquired the gun between 1925-1930.  

Here are some pictures. The gun is 10" long, engraved on both sides, no marks or names except what you see on the bottoom of the barrel. I can't read what it says. Grips look like american walnut to me. It's about a .62 smoothbore.  Everything works. It's not loaded, I checked.

Thanks,
Bill



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[msmith]

Looks like a "Boxlock Percussion"  May be a English or French gun...Some of these you would unscrew the barrel to load them. I can't see if yours is like this.

[G-Man]

Might be Belgian - these little "boot pistols" were a pretty common import item in the mid 1800s.

Guy

[WElliott]

I agree with Guy- most likely Belgium from the mid 1800s.