Forum: European Armoury
12th May 2024, 08:36 AM
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My example was recovered from the wreck of the...
My example was recovered from the wreck of the Hanover, she was a 100ft two-masted brigantine, built in 1757. On 20 November 1763 the Hanover left Lisbon, on her way to Falmouth, and on 2 December...
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Forum: European Armoury
8th April 2024, 09:02 PM
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Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania
22nd March 2024, 09:44 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
11th March 2024, 07:56 PM
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Yes, of course, but I meant serial numbers...
Yes, of course, but I meant serial numbers instead of rack numbers for bayonets.
Well you have me perplexed then - what is a 'serial number' on a sea service socket bayonet of the period under...
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Forum: European Armoury
5th March 2024, 07:04 PM
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Move that to bayonets where there are tens of...
Move that to bayonets where there are tens of thousands then a low serial number would be even rarer.
Approaching this logically no ship would have carried many hundreds of sea service muskets and...
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Forum: European Armoury
4th March 2024, 08:04 PM
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The placement of a low 'rack' number on British...
The placement of a low 'rack' number on British sea service small arms of this period, by using an applied copper 'plaque', surfaces occasionally and I have seen it on Boarding Pikes as well as on at...
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Forum: European Armoury
17th February 2024, 09:10 PM
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That seven-barrel volley gun is indeed very...
That seven-barrel volley gun is indeed very similar to the Ordnance gun supplied by Nock and appears to have been converted from flint action to the percussion principle via the nipple & drum method....
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Forum: European Armoury
1st January 2024, 08:09 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
2nd June 2023, 10:21 PM
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11th March 2023, 06:47 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
9th January 2023, 07:30 PM
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from the brass barel i presume is made for sea...
from the brass barel i presume is made for sea service. But which country an d what date? Is it a specific navy model or a private purchase?
Some naval small arms had brass barrels, however that...
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Forum: European Armoury
24th December 2022, 08:01 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
27th November 2022, 08:55 AM
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Forum: European Armoury
17th November 2022, 08:23 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
17th November 2022, 08:16 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
17th November 2022, 09:44 AM
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Forum: European Armoury
14th November 2022, 07:27 PM
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Excert from The 1842 Rifled and sighted Musket...
Excert from The 1842 Rifled and sighted Musket which mentions the fire (debatable as a reason) ... and adds details.
It also mentions the RN Marines being issued percussion muskets in the full...
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Forum: European Armoury
13th November 2022, 08:08 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
12th November 2022, 08:58 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
11th November 2022, 09:34 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
11th November 2022, 06:13 AM
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Forum: European Armoury
11th November 2022, 01:33 AM
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Forum: European Armoury
10th November 2022, 09:14 PM
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Thanks Adrian. Just when you think there is...
Thanks Adrian. Just when you think there is something definite!
I study the longarms more so than the blades and I do agree that, frustratingly, there almost always seems to be an exception to any...
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Forum: European Armoury
10th November 2022, 08:02 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
10th November 2022, 07:34 PM
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