Forum: European Armoury
23rd August 2024, 10:51 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
2nd August 2024, 07:36 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
30th July 2024, 11:27 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
30th July 2024, 05:32 AM
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1576 dated musket - unknown marking
I am hoping that someone here can identify this stamp for me please, I think that it is distinct enough to be a gunmaker's mark, rather than some sort of decoration.
It is on the breech of a 1576...
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Forum: Ethnographic Miscellania
3rd July 2024, 09:54 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
25th June 2024, 09:16 PM
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But what I'm intrigued about is this scroll...
But what I'm intrigued about is this scroll pierced by an arrow mark on the blades' spine.
Balance the sword to see if the 'arrow' has anything to do with its point of balance, either at its...
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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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Forum: Swap Forum
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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