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14th December 2008, 04:34 PM
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Hopefully I will get to right pic this time ...
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14th December 2008, 04:36 PM
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Nooo ...
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14th December 2008, 04:36 PM
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Done at last ...
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14th December 2008, 05:12 PM
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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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14th December 2008, 07:41 PM
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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. Michael |
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14th December 2008, 07:45 PM
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I should add that, telling from its aroma and grain, the stock is of limewood.
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14th December 2008, 07:51 PM
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A very fine snap tinder lock harquebus, ca. 1525-30, at the Pilsen museum
Very similar to the preceeding one but longer.
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