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Old 6th July 2010, 04:35 PM   #1
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Thank you dear Philip,
I can't help being simultaneously fond of various types of weapons; a sort of eclectic collector, to give it a pompous name .
Collecting, for some like me, may imply in a rotation of the items; you gather them as you see them, love them while you have them, and one day you let them go, in favour of the ones you like more.
I know there are some who only gather what they have elected, and others who gather all they come across and keep everything.
I reckon i don't belong to these two groups because, on one hand i am a convict consumer and like to acquire the most varied things but, on the other, i don't have the space (volumetric and financial ) to maintain all gathered stock.
So, time allowing, i try and end up refining my inventory ... hand cannons having a previleged position .
Thank you so much on the hints on how to extract loads.
In this specific case it sufised to make a hook with a strong paper clip, attach it to the tip of a shotgun cleaning kit rod that i had bought in a flea market and, at the second atempt, the paper 'wad' came out.
The impression that there was more than just the paper inside the barrel is because the breech base was rather thick.
Meantime i am still strugling to find the origin of this gun .
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Old 6th July 2010, 06:34 PM   #2
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Hi Fernando,
Nice Blunderbus. I notice that it has a belt hook. Quite a large piece to hang on ones belt I would have thought!
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Old 6th July 2010, 06:48 PM   #3
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Hi Stu,
This is the shortest blunderbuss i got, as also one of the shortest you may see out there ... before you start consider them blunderbuss pistols.
I have 'longer' ones also with belt hooks. Well, belt hook is a mode of calling them, as indeed they were (also) hanging from baldrics, used across the chest and also hanging devices on horse saddles.
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Old 6th July 2010, 07:40 PM   #4
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Nice piece. Too bad it was "converso"ed. The stepped iron barrel looks to be 18th century. A coach gun?
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Old 6th July 2010, 08:07 PM   #5
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Hi 'Nando,

Taken into account what I wrote in my current thread on earliest handgonnes concerning often firing shot out of them, they might even be called the 'primeval blunderbusses'.

Apart from that, I like your piece of course. Do not worry too much about its being converted to percussion; it is known that only the really well firing specimen were converted in the 19th century.

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Old 8th July 2010, 04:58 PM   #6
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Thank you Dmitry


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Nice piece. Too bad it was "converso"ed. The stepped iron barrel looks to be 18th century. A coach gun?
Could well be a coach gun; a short range piece, in any case.
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Old 8th July 2010, 05:05 PM   #7
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Thanks a lot you for input, Michl ... and for embellishing my thread with those great images of medieval blunderbusses
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Old 9th July 2010, 06:09 AM   #8
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Very nice piece, Fernando! I particularly love blunderbusses. Although not made of brass, it could still have seen naval use. Blunderbus were extremely popular ship-board for both naval actions and to 'discourage mutinies". The belt hook is a common attachment on naval firearms. An iron barrel could indicate "private purchase" for a merchantman or privateer...
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