Pepperbox with damascus barrels

fernando · 29th August 2007, 08:42 PM

I was impressed by the thread with Ward's square barrel Matchlock and the consequent development on the pattern welding postings, specially the "Fun with Fimo" once posted by Lee and brought into Ward's thread by Rand.
Not that i am within these techniques at all, but looking at the above left pattern in the article's page 7, it came to mind the posting of this XIX century Belgium pepperbox, with expressive damascus barrels, that i got the other day. Further in the link i am inserting here, in an interesting Belgium page, we can see a sampling barrel made with eight different patterns, as a method to show the customers, for the selection of the decoration they wanted for their order. These eight patterns all have a name.
http://www.littlegun.be/arme%20belge...damas%20fr.htm
The example pistol they show in the page has a pattern very similar to that in my pistol ( i think ). Its a pitty they don't mention the name of such pattern.
I hope any of this is of some interest
fernando

29th August 2007, 08:42 PM	#1
fernando Lead Moderator European Armoury Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Portugal Posts: 9,666	Pepperbox with damascus barrels I was impressed by the thread with Ward's square barrel Matchlock and the consequent development on the pattern welding postings, specially the "Fun with Fimo" once posted by Lee and brought into Ward's thread by Rand. Not that i am within these techniques at all, but looking at the above left pattern in the article's page 7, it came to mind the posting of this XIX century Belgium pepperbox, with expressive damascus barrels, that i got the other day. Further in the link i am inserting here, in an interesting Belgium page, we can see a sampling barrel made with eight different patterns, as a method to show the customers, for the selection of the decoration they wanted for their order. These eight patterns all have a name. http://www.littlegun.be/arme%20belge...damas%20fr.htm The example pistol they show in the page has a pattern very similar to that in my pistol ( i think ). Its a pitty they don't mention the name of such pattern. I hope any of this is of some interest fernando Attached Images Last edited by fernando; 29th August 2007 at 11:39 PM.