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This is an interesting one. Mainspring bears down on the front of the cock's foot, as on the Kremlin example I posted above. Snaphaunce configuration, with a vertical post on the pan indicating a pivot for a (matchlock-type) manually opened pan-cover (which is also seen on some primitive Scandinavian designs). Do you have Yuri Miller's Russian Arms and Armour ? More princely examples of Russian snaplocks in the Kremlin Armory, and during the period in which they were in vogue, there was quite a spectrum of design variations. You see lockplates with a bulging contour on the bottom imitating the style of wheellocks, external and internal mainsprings, decorative and stylistic touches echoing Scottish, Dutch, and English snaphaunces, etc. |
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