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13th April 2014, 05:20 PM | #1 |
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Miqelet musket for ID
hello! please help me to ID this musket. 75 cm length
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13th April 2014, 05:48 PM | #2 |
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My guess is a Spanish trabuco (blunderbuss) converted from flintlock (patilla system) to percussion. Probably made end 18th / beg. 19th and converted around 1830, like many others.
Catalan type buttstock. |
13th April 2014, 05:53 PM | #3 |
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thanks, fernando! what do you think about hook on the 3-d picture?
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13th April 2014, 06:53 PM | #4 |
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They often mount these belt hooks in blunderbusses; this one could be there since the beginning.
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14th April 2014, 12:05 AM | #5 |
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Hello:
In general, I agree with Fernando, I just think the lock is original, and not a conversion of a flint lock. Indeed, the area where the bread should be shown no drilling for bridge and insert the spring rake / frizzen). It would be nice photograph inside the lock. Same for the barrel. The masacote where this fixed the fireplace is welded or bolted? Affectionately Fernando K (Sorry for the translation) |
14th April 2014, 05:30 PM | #6 |
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Fernando K is most certainly right. I didn't care for the missing hole of the pan & frizzen and only looked to the 'poor quality' of the percussion hammer.
Yes, it would be interesting to know whether the ignition plug is welded to barrel or screwed instead ... a sign of later addition for a conversion, right Fernando ? In this case this trabuco would be of a more recent production, same as the percussion system was popularized ... around 1830 |
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