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Old 9th October 2009, 11:15 PM   #1
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Old 9th October 2009, 11:17 PM   #2
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Old 10th October 2009, 09:55 AM   #3
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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!

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Dear Fernando,

Thank you very much for providing this info. There is an amazing amount of information there and some that are of great interest to me. Could you pl. let me know what the label for the matchlock with a scrolled butt in the center of image No. 5 states and who it belongs to. Is it from Rainer Daehnhardt's collection? I assume that it is the same as Nos. 9 and 11.

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Hi Anan,
The example you refer is reportedly a Portuguese-Singhalese specimen, from the XVII century, built on the portuguese snap-match-principle.
Pictures 9 and 11 are indeed details of the same piece.
The example below, in the same picture, is a Singhalese specimen from the XVIII century, also based in the portuguese principle of the period.
Both belong to Rainer Daenhnardt collection.
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Old 11th October 2009, 03:16 AM   #6
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Dear Fernando,

Thank you very much for this info., which confirms my thinking. I would assume there is no catalogue of the exibition illustrating these; is there?

Once again thank you very much for providing this important information.

I owe you one.

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