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Old 20th March 2014, 12:10 PM   #48
Matchlock
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Default Snap-Tinderlock Arquebus with Left-hand Sided Lock Mechanism

... made for a left aiming arquebusier.

I knew I had seen it somewhere before, and here it is, right in my archives: Nuremberg, ca. 1525-30, in the Brukenthal Museum Sibiu/Hermannstadt, Romania.
The long tubular rear sight missing from the barrel, the two original pods for it preserved.

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