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  1. J

    Doc Help: Landsknecht Matchlock Pistol?

    So what's your opinion on the pistol I have Per? I take it you've seen the link I posted to the Swiss musket? the lock appears to me to be genuine,even in the early 19th centuary it would have been quite an undertaking and something of a gamble to waste an antique lock into a wall...
  2. J

    Doc Help: Landsknecht Matchlock Pistol?

    You know you're absolutely right ,people gift items to museums thinking it's the best thing to do, to share interesting and beautiful artifacts with everyone, truth of the matter is the museums get asset rich and the items are lost in storage never to be seen again. Such a shame. I grew up in...
  3. J

    Doc Help: Landsknecht Matchlock Pistol?

    Get this, I used to have a deact WW1 Guryonov heavy machine gun on an ack-ack carriage living in the window at the top of the stairs, it had 6ft of belted ammo hanging down and dirty great steel wheels,awesome! . Great for keeping the burglars away. She never dusted that either! :haha:
  4. J

    Doc Help: Landsknecht Matchlock Pistol?

    Way to go Alden,they don't get much more impressive than that! I love the Martinis, I've got a short lever civilian 577/450 by Chas. Osbourne cos I tend to go for sporting rifles these days, they fit the cabinet I got. The Gustav I had was getting on 5ft long with the bayonet on the end, and...
  5. J

    Doc Help: Landsknecht Matchlock Pistol?

    Breech! poxy predictive text again :cursing:
  6. J

    Doc Help: Landsknecht Matchlock Pistol?

    Bit of a nickname for the Swedish Gevar 6.5mm service rifle, it was an improved model Mauser 1893, real nice thing,beautiful action. Therein lies my main focus of interest,early and turn of the century breach loaders, the matchlocks are decorators, I'd probably get on OK with Karls' wife. :)
  7. J

    Doc Help: Landsknecht Matchlock Pistol?

    Best not try to fight it Karl,her guns will always be prettier than yours. I had an old Swedish Mauser over the fireplace for years, she dusted everything...except that. :yakyak: :surrender:
  8. J

    Doc Help: Landsknecht Matchlock Pistol?

    Look what I found. Not a pistol I know but the lock bears a remarkable similarity to the one I have. Neuchatel? that's Swiss ain't it? Curiouser and couriouser said Alice, maybe it was a Landsknecht pistol after all or a Vatican Guards codpiece backup?? :idunno...
  9. J

    Doc Help: Landsknecht Matchlock Pistol?

    Ha! another with a copy of the Conan Doyle songbook,Moriarty's behind this I'll wager,take this you fiend! :blah: 'Which is it today,' I asked, 'morphine or cocaine?' He raised his eyes languidly from the old black-leather volume which he had opened. 'It is cocaine,' he said, 'a...
  10. J

    Doc Help: Landsknecht Matchlock Pistol?

    'Having gathered these facts, Watson, I smoked several pipes over them, trying to separate those which were crucial from others which were merely incidental.' :hmm:
  11. J

    New Possession - Double Trigger Percussion

    Yes,interesting,set triggers normally indicate a good quality lock and the existing lock doesn't seem to fit quite as nicely as you'd expect, there appears to be only one retaining screw and no provision in the woodwork for a second (unless it's been filled? can't see why that would be so...
  12. J

    Doc Help: Landsknecht Matchlock Pistol?

    [/URL][/img] On the point of using match on horseback you may find interesting (if you don't already know), the way the Afghanis did it was by using the stock which hooked under the arm of the rider and the musket was held like a lance, the trigger was square to prevent snagging and it had a...
  13. J

    Doc Help: Landsknecht Matchlock Pistol?

    Good point Alden, purely speculation on my part of course but I don't think it can be quite as clear cut as that,there was a huge overlap around this time,from what I understand matchlocks were being made alongside wheel locks and even flintlocks in the early stages because they were cheap and...
  14. J

    Doc Help: Landsknecht Matchlock Pistol?

    Hi Karl, yes I've seen that one before myself on my travels round the net,bit of a beast and looks to be very well done but a bit 'vampire hunter'. Multi barrels are pretty damn impressive though,the French went wild in the 19th century with some of their pinfire creations,24 shot double...
  15. J

    Doc Help: Landsknecht Matchlock Pistol?

    Love the quote Alden,sort of sums up my predicament with this pistol, all the experts know for sure that English matchlock pistols don't exist and yet here here is one...or so it seems :confused: Experts, being also expert in dodging difficult questions that question their expertise, won't...
  16. J

    Doc Help: Landsknecht Matchlock Pistol?

    Not here to correct anybody az, just to bang a few heads together see if any sensible thoughts come out :) You seem to be thinking the way I am. The accepted consensus is there were no English matchlock pistols,but that's an English lock,where else would you find English locks and European...
  17. J

    Doc Help: Landsknecht Matchlock Pistol?

    Thought you'd like it :) that should say patination (predictive bloody text! )
  18. J

    Doc Help: Landsknecht Matchlock Pistol?

    Definitely not a wheel lock far too slim and there's no evidence of it being reworked from anything to what it is. It's a late pattern English matchlock lock, c.1680. These were made during the transition to early flint and adopted the banana shaped plate so they could be upgraded to standard...
  19. J

    Unknown firearm please help

    Looks like it might be Burmese or Malayan judging by the type of wood and general style. The inlay work looks to be of decent quality, I may be wrong but I wouldn't class it as a tourist or decorators piece. Critical thing is how crisp the lock is when judging the quality of a piece like that...
  20. J

    Doc Help: Landsknecht Matchlock Pistol?

    [/URL][/img] Slightly better pic. I've got quite a few more detailed closeups of the gun,don't want to flood the site with my stuff though,let me know if you want to see more. John.
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