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| | Oriental Armors |
 | | Caucasian arms and armor embody the centuries-long experience and skills of oriental armoires, enriched, as it is, by long-standing traditions of outstanding craftsmanship. |
 | | Caucasian pistols and guns, despite the simple technology of their manufacture, were of excellent constructional design and high firing power. |
 | | Caucasian firearms, too, were sumptuously and lavishly decorated: the barrels were adorned with gold darnascefling, the flintlocks with engraving and embossing, the gun stocks, straight and narrow, were made of plane-tree an nut4ree wood, were inlaid with bone, silver, or woods of different species. |
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