[Matchlock]

Attached to this and the following post, find some photos

of Nuremberg made snap-tinderlock arquebuses with lateral push-button triggers, and with only the serpentine riveted on a small brass plate while all the other mechanical parts like the long forward-mounted one-armed main spring (mostly made of hammered brass) were inlaid in recesses cut out of the stock, and covered up with a thin plate of wood.
A long brass-hammered spring of exactly this type is illustrated on one of the scans I made of photos of arquebuses discovered in the wreck of the Bom Jesus.


The arquebuses on my photos are preserved in the historical armories of
the Západočeské muzeum v Plzni, Czechia,

and
the Brukenthal-Museum Sibiu,
Romania.

Please note the Nuremberg control mark struck as a sign of quality on the barrel of one of the Sibiu arquebuses.

The latest stage of technological development, now uniting all parts of snap-tinder/snap-matchlock mechanism on one iron lock plate, Nuremberg, ca. 1530, is represented by a short arquebus preserved in the reserve collection/storage rooms of the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt (bottom attachments).

Although the lock mechanism is missing from the latter gun, the lock recess cut out of the limewood full stock clearly denotes its pointed triangular shape.
Please also note that this arquebus, for the first time, features the 'modern' form of a trigger (German: Züngleinabzug or Abzugszüngel), which is protected by a rectangular trigger guard!


Please also cf. Alexender's threads:
http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...ht=zapadoceske

http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...ht=zapadoceske


and my threads:
http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...ht=zapadoceske

http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...ht=zapadoceske



Best,
Michael


Photos of the Pilsen and Darmstadt arquebuses copyrighted by the author, Michael Trömner.

Photos of the Sibiu arquebusees copyrighted by the Brukenthal-Museum Sibiu/Hermannstadt.