This attractive pistol was likely manufactured in the early 19th century and has gold damascene designs on the trigger plate, lock, and upper tang. The barrel also has inlaid and relief designs. The stock has wire inlay in scroll and floral patterns covering most of the surfaces and some inlaid Arabic style calligraphy along the sides of the upper tang. The barrel is secured by three nickel silver bands and the forend has a bone cap. The wood displays an attractive stripe pattern. The butt is in the rounded ball shape common to the Caucasian region, and the pistol also has the small round trigger and Russian miquelet lock commonly found on pistols used in the region. Given the Arabic markings, the pistol was likely manufactured prior to the expulsion of the Circassians by Imperial Russian forces at the end of the Caucasian War and may have been used by Circassian fighters during that conflict.