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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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Peculiar gun, one should say ![]() |
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![]() Why don't I ever find something like that? |
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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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That's always a tricky negotiation ... if you make a really good offer then they always think .. 'wow it must be worth MUCH more than that ! ' . |
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Outstanding Wayne
![]() Mind you, if the sailor smokes a couple joints and looses his hands firmness, he might shot the horse's head ![]() |
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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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Give up the fight, lads
![]() I am the only one who owns a decent boat to install this thing ![]() . |
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![]() nice barca, fernando. you might want to beef up the gunwales* a tad, they look a bit flimsey for that coffee grinder. gunwales, or gunnels is of course derived from gun walls, the extension of the hull planking (and later, plating) upwards past the weather deck to which swivel guns (and lines and ropes of all sizes and descriptions) were attached. sadly, you would need to drill a rather large hole in a horse to mount this swivel gun. which kind of defeats the purpose as the horse would not like that. |
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![]() maybe as a mobile anti-aircraft weapon? after all, leonardo invented the airplane back in the 15/16c., 300 or so yrs earlier, so they must have thought of a defence by 1812. ![]() p.s. - googling lanch poviera brought up some images of slightly larger ones, nice looking boats. well capable of mounting his find. ![]() ![]() Last edited by kronckew; 21st June 2014 at 07:30 AM. |
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You got it Wayne. When a kid, i used to play inside the last of them, when ashore (during the fifties).
Pity the whole fleet has disappeared. The present one is just for fun ![]() |
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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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