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A friend has just sent these ( awful ) pictures of a swivel gun he found in a building he has bought . Lucky chap !
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Possibly a harpoon or line throwing gun?
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no , I dont think so , I am sure it is a French swivel gun from the late 18th C .. here is a picture from Gilkerson of the same with the flintlock mechanism in place
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Michel Brézin (1758-1828) was an important French canon manufacturer, with foundries in Paris and Normandy, operating since the 1790’s and a major supplier of guns to the French military during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras. I believe that in French the term perrier for these swivel guns is more common than espingole, although the latter is also used, but the main meaning is blunderbuss. This particular piece was made in 1812 (as per the inscription), was there an An IX (1800-01) model?
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I just bid on one of these in a London auction several months ago. needless to say, I didn't even come close to winning! Just like this example from the old thread, t was missing it's flintlock mechanism, which I'm told is as rare as the gun itself!
BTW, Thinreadline, does your friend still have this piece? Still not interested in selling? ![]() Last edited by M ELEY; 20th June 2021 at 08:14 PM. |
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Oh s--t !!! ![]() ![]() ![]() P.S. Great gun ![]() Last edited by Norman McCormick; 19th June 2014 at 10:46 PM. |
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Well Norman . apparently it was a Kardomah Coffee House ! I have spent a lot of time in coffee houses and never found anything more exciting than a plastic butter knife ! |
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Unbelievable!!!! I could only be so lucky! I've been trying to land a swivel gun over the past decade and here we have a chap that finds one in a deserted building!! I think I'll take up renovating-
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You'll never guess, I've found another book that definitely identifies this object as an old style mass produced French coffee grinder and believe it or not I've just got a new kitchen and the one thing I'm lacking is, you guessed it, a coffee grinder. ![]() ![]() ![]() Yours, Norman. |
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