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Old 14th December 2008, 04:28 PM   #1
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The rest.

The ramrod channel is offset because of the hook.

Note the long muzzle section left characteristically unstocked.

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Old 14th December 2008, 04:31 PM   #2
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The pic of the broad fish tail buttstock should not have been in there; instead, these should have.

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Hopefully I will get to right pic this time ...
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Nooo ...
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Done at last ...
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As my brilliant firend Richard will have noted the back-sight is indented at the sides for a tube which is now missing.

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Default A very fine and rare snap tinder lock harquebus, ca. 1525-30

... in a private collection (sadly not mine).

Enjoy the dismantled mechanism shown here for study for the very first time ever - that should enable you to rebuild it, Richard!

The brass inlay is quite common to the period; though not marked, this beautiful little gun was certainly made in South Germany, probably Augsburg or Nuremberg. The open back sight tunnel is quite unusual and somewhat contradictive to the basical function of a tubular back sight: to narrow the focus ...

The stock varnish is a greenish now turned dark color, the ramrod a poor replacement.

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