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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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15th December 2008, 03:46 PM
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Very interesting photos again Michael!!
The details are wondeful. The little gun is rather interesting too. It sometimes takes me a while to figure things out, and this one is no exception! It looks very well made, and so unique because of its great age. Lovely condition too. Thanks you for showing it with its 'guts' out! Are those little pieces of wood, that cover the trigger/scear spring? If so, what holds them in? does the brass lock-plate partialy cover the rear one, and the mainspring hold the front one? It is amazing that it hasn't lost any parts, over its very long life! I Must have a bash at making such a lock! Thank you for these pictures, they are worth a fortune! More later, ...must go... Richard. |
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16th December 2008, 12:31 PM
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Hi, Richard,
In fact, both the Pilsen gun and the litlle guy did lose a few pieces of wood covering the trigger/sear spring. They have been repaced in both guns but are completely original in the Hofkircher gun in Graz which retains them all. Interesting enough, in the little harquebus, the rear little piece of wood is not held at all, just inserted (!); there are no old traces of glue whatsoever. The forward splice of wood is, as you wrote, just barely kept in place by the mainspring. Of course, those two pieces would have fitted in much better when the wood was new and without any shrinkage. The part locks disappeared from the scene very soon, though, and complete lock plates took over for evidently practical reasons. Michael |
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