Forum: European Armoury
6th July 2018, 10:38 PM
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Replies: 15
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Ripoll Miquelet
Hi Dana, what a nice pistol. That lock alone pretty much identifies Ripoll made. A very standard patilla, flat full cock and round notched half cock. IMHO that is what my envious eyes see it.
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Forum: European Armoury
21st November 2017, 03:50 AM
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Replies: 52
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Portuguese patilla
Fernando K, please do as fernando requested. I learned from you and you always made observations and posts so very much more interesting. So please remain active in the forum.
Respectfully,
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Forum: European Armoury
21st January 2017, 11:01 PM
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Replies: 62
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
11th December 2016, 10:51 AM
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Replies: 28
Views: 16,954
I am solidly with Fernando K on this one, that...
I am solidly with Fernando K on this one, that is, this lock is a "stretched" agujeta lock, a type of lock probably born in Brescia, copied in North Africa, may or may not have preceded the classic...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
12th July 2015, 11:08 PM
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Replies: 4
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Forum: European Armoury
4th July 2015, 06:19 AM
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Replies: 13
Views: 13,755
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Forum: European Armoury
30th June 2015, 11:19 PM
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Replies: 13
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Forum: European Armoury
30th June 2015, 10:21 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
30th June 2015, 10:41 AM
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Replies: 13
Views: 13,755
Rubens hunter
Greetings, I have been wanting to ask the members what variety of gunlock is pictured in Peter Paul Rubens An Autumn Landscape with a View of Hetsteen circa 1635. I believe it to be an agujeta of...
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Forum: Ethnographic Weapons
2nd June 2014, 02:04 AM
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Replies: 113
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Rick et al,
Here is an article from an...
Rick et al,
Here is an article from an international museum committee site that is certainly germane to the original topic. I really enjoy all Ibrahiim al Balooshi posts and we are truly fortunate...
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Forum: European Armoury
22nd April 2014, 06:39 AM
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Replies: 3
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Forum: European Armoury
20th April 2014, 05:10 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 7,931
mystery miquelet
Greetings All,
This lock looks for all the world to be Italian, “alla marchigiana” (“in the Marchesan style” ). Marchesan locks have been often described as “surrealistic”. Hmm, wonder why. What...
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Forum: European Armoury
19th April 2014, 05:44 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 7,926
Fernando, no need to withdraw your opinion...
Fernando, no need to withdraw your opinion because you are most certainly correct about the decorative crudeness of the hammer. You were talking aesthetics, I was talking functionality. My "crude"...
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Forum: European Armoury
18th April 2014, 11:46 AM
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Replies: 11
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Hola, Fernandos
The "poor quality" hammer at...
Hola, Fernandos
The "poor quality" hammer at least strikes the nipple and thus the cap squarely, not something many better (and modern) caplocks always get right. Given decent quality caps, I bet...
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Forum: European Armoury
19th November 2013, 09:50 PM
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Replies: 34
Views: 39,857
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Forum: European Armoury
19th November 2013, 10:37 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 38,184
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Forum: European Armoury
19th November 2013, 06:02 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 38,184
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Forum: European Armoury
15th November 2013, 08:06 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 38,184
All, if you have access to Art, Arms and Armour...
All, if you have access to Art, Arms and Armour '79, page 340, you will see Marchesan (central Italy) romanlocks and pistols not unlike the subject pistol. May not be much help, but it is the place I...
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Forum: European Armoury
22nd October 2013, 05:18 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 14,697
Dmitry and James,
Perhaps item number FC159...
Dmitry and James,
Perhaps item number FC159 from https://www.blackleyandson.com/ would be a good start at replacing that top jaw. FC159 sure looks like the broken one and measures 1.437". Just...
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Forum: European Armoury
19th October 2013, 05:08 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 14,697
Dmitry et al,
I agree, that hole has...
Dmitry et al,
I agree, that hole has something to do with a belt hook. Fernando K nailed the makers. Nice pistol at any rate, though that broken top jaw sort of spoils the overall condition....
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Forum: European Armoury
6th October 2013, 07:23 AM
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Replies: 34
Views: 39,857
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Forum: European Armoury
28th September 2013, 12:26 AM
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Replies: 34
Views: 39,857
Dana et al
A quick look in my Dutch firearms...
Dana et al
A quick look in my Dutch firearms books revealed a musket of circa 1640 having a flintlock with the frizzen spring located on the interior of the lock. So perhaps that is the case with...
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Forum: European Armoury
28th September 2013, 12:11 AM
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Replies: 34
Views: 39,857
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Forum: European Armoury
27th September 2013, 05:10 AM
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Replies: 34
Views: 39,857
Dana
Don't know much about muzzle dragons,...
Dana
Don't know much about muzzle dragons, but early English blunderbusses, maybe. This early blunderbuss is all I have been able to find so far. Earlier than this, one needs to look toward the...
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Forum: European Armoury
25th September 2013, 05:46 AM
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Replies: 34
Views: 39,857
Dana, perhaps this may be of some help, keeping...
Dana, perhaps this may be of some help, keeping in mind, of course, terminology is a mine field. From Francis Markham in "Five Decades of Epistles of Warres", London, 1622, Bk. IV, p. 133 refers to...
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