A Vietnamese ‘Montagnard’ primitive Snaphaunce

[rickystl]

I don’t think there was a top jaw with a screw. I’ve read the flint was glued in there or wrapped with twine or something.

I once viewed one of these at the Baltimore antique arms show many years ago. The lock looked like the one in Post #32 above. It had what was left of a flint pawl in the jaws wrapped with leather and some type of black colored tar/glue that had hardened and was beginning to crumble.

Rick

 

[Sam squanch]

Maybe some kind of tree sap.