New arms museulogic nucleus in Portugal - Part three

[Matchlock]

Hi Fernando,

Exzellent images, thank you so much.

From top:

pics 1-4: a wrought iron haquebut with hexagonal barrel of shifting sections, ca. 1460

- pic 5, from top:
- a composite German matchlock haquebut, the stock only ca. 1540 and sold Tom Del Mar, Dec 15, 2004, from Frondsberg Castle, Styria; the barrel a dummy, the lock plate and match holder inadequate modern replacements in the shape of ca. 1650
- two 18th century matchlock guns, both probably from Malaysia

- pic 6: lock detail of the latter

- pic 7: a very rare South German snap tinder lock haquebut, ca. 1530, the wrought iron barrel fitted with originally tubular backsight (the upper plate now missing), the lock mechanism with lateral push button trigger partly imbedded in the stock, only the tinder holder mounted on a small plate

- pic 8: a very unusual revolving cylinder matchlock gun, most probably India, 18th-19th century, the serpentine presumably a modern replacement

- pic 9: detail of the buttstock double scroll of the Malaysian matchlock gun illustrated in pic 5

- pic 10: lock detail of the first gun in pic 5

- pic 11: lock detail of the Malysian matchlock from pics 5 and 9

- pic 12: lock detail of an 18th century Eastern matchlock gun, most probably Japanese


Thanks once more, Fernando!

Best wishes,
Michael