Neat “Moroccan Lock” action - Snaphaunce?

Philip Chua · Sep 25, 2024

Howdy all,
This is in the Sevilla arms museum (Spain). One is a “Moroccan” lock which looks a bit like a snaphaunce? Second is a huge wall gun with a Miquelet style lock. I couldn’t get into the Arms museum in Madrid but there are other I’ll see during this trip.
Phil

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ChuckJonesWagon · Sep 25, 2024

WOW!! There's a whole lotta "stuff" goin on there!! :ghostly:

Flint62Smoothie · Sep 25, 2024

NICE! Love it!

Horizontal sear through lockplate, cock ‘stop’ external to the lockplate, round ‘knob’ projection off the pan, large frizzen with ~90-degree elbow off an arm … definite Snaphaunce.

Wonder if the cock moving forward pushes open a ‘closed’ pan cover???

Philip Chua · Sep 26, 2024

Flint62Smoothie said:
NICE! Love it!

Horizontal sear through lockplate, cock ‘stop’ external to the lockplate, round ‘knob’ projection off the pan, large frizzen with ~90-degree elbow off an arm … definite Snaphaunce.

Wonder if the cock moving forward pushes open a ‘closed’ pan cover???

I didn’t see a sliding pan cover but we were moving kinda quickly unfortunately so didn’t get a great look. However when I loo at the pic maybe the pan cover is already slid forward?

TobJohn · Sep 26, 2024

This looks like the pan cover, in the forward position

Philip Chua · Sep 26, 2024

TobJohn said:
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This looks like the pan cover, in the forward position

I believe you’re correct! I wish the other 2 pics of the wall rifle came through. It was a doozy!!! I think I’ll try to repost them.

Philip Chua · Sep 26, 2024

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Flint62Smoothie · Sep 26, 2024

Here's the Miquelet @Philip Chua posted above ...

rickystl · Sep 27, 2024

Hi Philip

Thanks for the photos. The Moroccan snaphaunce lock was built by one of the period local lock makers. It copies the Dutch pattern. I can tell by the upper wrist area the the lock is mounted to a musket identified as Altit. And comes from the Little Atlas mountains region of Morocco.

That does indeed look like a large Spanish wall gun. My guess would be about the Mid-1700's. Notice the plain, undecorated lock style suggesting it was likely built for military use. The frizzen spring is hidden inside that cover below the pan. There is access to the spring in the front of the cover not shown in the photo. Not all of the lock makers used this cover for the frizzen spring. But many did. The Ottoman/Turks copied this feature also. Never really understood the purpose of covering the frizzen spring (?)

Rick

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