Flint with lead holder

[Matchlock]

Hi Marcus,


Thousands of those lead-wrapped flints used in the cocks of military flintlock muskets are found by farmers every year; several of them are preserved in The MICHAEL TRÖMNER COLLECTION.

Only the so-called BLOND flints, also called HORN flints, are quite rare to detect. The best chances to detect blond flints are when searching in France (they were quarried in great numbers near St. Etienne), Belgium, Germany and Austria.
There are dozens of all sizes of blond flints in my collection.

The GRAY (in British English: grey) and BROWNISH colored flints, and especially the BLACK colored Podolian (German: podolisch) types, are very common; they were mostly used in the Netherlands and in the area of what is Great Britain and Ireland today.

Prices for the latter vary from 1-5 euros per piece.


Best,
Michael