6th January 2014, 03:03 PM | #1 |
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A seventeenth century wheelock
I am posting this recently acquired lock mainly because its condition. The hunting scene is beautifully but economically executed and shows what some of these these later locks originally looked like with their engraving enhanced by fire gilding against a background of blued steel .
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