I would LOVE to see a collection like the one you are talking about. I knew nothing about Professor Rainer Daehnhardt's collection until now. Thanks for putting me on the path!
http://www.arscives.com/bladesign/history.htm http://www.arscives.com/bladesign/RDCollection.htm
A big problem I have in studying this subject is so much contradictory information on some of the details, and how much wrong information. For example Christies called this a Miquelet lock. I guess it could be a "Madrid" type Miquelet lock, but it sure doesn't look like it from the photo. Where are the horizontal sears?
http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/a...2-details.aspx