a seventeenth century matchlock ?

[Matchlock]

Exactly, Marcus,


Thank you so much, you definitely got the point!

That was the kind of input I had been waiting for: an originally plain military Prussian wheellock saddle carbine , Suhl, ca. 1670, the saddle bar and ring now missing, and embellished in Poland in around 1700 in the obsolete Renaissance Mannerism style of ca. 1580-1600.

Attached please find images of two Suhl wheellock carbines from the same series retaining their original unaltered appearance, with their plain walnut full stocks, saddle bars and rings.


Best,
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