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Old 9th July 2009, 12:15 AM   #34
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Hi Michael,
Thank you so much

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1. I know of no surviving locking bars for breeches ....
Even taking into account Brodaxe's post #18 in this thread?

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Old 10th July 2009, 02:06 PM   #35
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Especially taking broadaxe's documentation into consideration, Fernando.

As e.g. your postings have taught me almost anything must be granted to be a possible solution (remember the wooden hooks on haquenuts?) Iron wedges would of course have been more stable and thus more probable.

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Old 18th July 2009, 07:54 PM   #36
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