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Originally Posted by corrado26
... There has been a blunderbuss-gun introduced in the Austrian cuirassier-regiments. 12 men of these regiments used so called "trombones M 1759" with a horizontally very wide muzzle ...
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Suggestive example, corrado; thanks for sharing it. If i may say, this one falls into atypical connotation, both because blunderbusses
generally have flared muzzles and its nickname
trombone doesn't reflect its actual barrel shape ?.
But speaking of muzzles, one may consider the 'duck beak' version (as we call it here), in a French example of the XVIII century, here scanned from the catalogue of the Ducal Palace of Vila Viçosa (Portugal).
From the same armoury, we may also appreciate an English fortress/navy blunderbuss, from the same period, with a rather 'scary' muzzle.
... and another example for a similar purpose, this time Portuguese, from the XVII-XVIII century, with a steel octogonal/tronco-conic barrel with silver decoration, equipped with prominent brass sights, an iron swivel device and a typical Portuguese lock.
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