Ottoman Guns

[Rudyard]

Rudyard: Is your broken mainspring similar to this ?

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Dear Rick Yes the very same sort & shape just took a pic with tapemeasure to get size

 

[Rudyard]

Dear Rick Yes the very same sort & shape just took a pic with tapemeasure to get size

 

[rickystl]

Hi Rudyard

OK. That's one of the most common miquelet locks in the Region. Generally referred to as a Balkan lock. They were used on all kinds of guns. Very well built and reliable. And yes, the Albanians and Greeks were especially fond of using this lock. OK, you mentioned about
3 1/4" long. I look through my lock parts tomorrow and see what I have.

 

[Rudyard]

Dear Rick here is the desired pic of lock complete with my gray hair ! very like the Revel plastic kits .I hoped ide get just memory lane stuff was one I had as .Well Ime still a Boy just 70 years boy later .
Regards Rudyard

Hi Rudyard

OK. That's one of the most common miquelet locks in the Region. Generally referred to as a Balkan lock. They were used on all kinds of guns. Very well built and reliable. And yes, the Albanians and Greeks were especially fond of using this lock. OK, you mentioned about
3 1/4" long. I look through my lock parts tomorrow and see what I have.

Dear Rick that,s good to know have a similar lock but used it. Currently knocking up a Persian put to cap lock with their drum cum bar lock, per Elgood page 126 Kuwait collection only not so flash .The Major Corry haul had many barrels that had been side plug converted . Its like they confiscated the guns smashed the stocks perhaps to keep their fires going ? then tossed the barrels in a pile for scrap certainly not much care involved But all hail the Galloping Major he's become like a patron saint to such as we .His haul included much worn Werdles & Double rifles or 577 or so with rude sights ,the locks bareing V Gulicers a Liege plus Persian Snow lions . And well worn Double smooth bores marked Swinburne &' Scinde Irregular Horse' I only had the locks & mounts but the false breech I got to mate the barrels of a Jacobs Infantry rifle it was well pitted & the barrel floating but & the bores where good the ladder sight gone probably robbed by Weller & Dufty staff as perks I suspect' But I fitted a spare long Lee and that was as far as the buyer wanted How he got on I don't know .I only shot one of the separated barrels with a rudely stocked match lock in Adelaide only recently I used the lock on a huge wall gun style musket definatly a forked rest affair in all its intended Elizabethan splendor. Rudyard .

 

[rickystl]

Rudyard: Thanks for the photo. The lock in your photo above does not look like it has a broken mainspring (?)

Also, note in the photo I posted, the mainspring's longer arm has a slight more upward curve to it. The mainspring in your photo the longer arm is a bit more straight. I've seen it both ways. I guess it depends on which original shop they were built in.

Which style of mainspring do you need ?

 

[rickystl]

I enlarged your photo. It looks like possibly the tip of the tail of the upper arm, where the **** meets the mainspring, may have broken off ?
Is that correct ?

 

[Rudyard]

I enlarged your photo. It looks like possibly the tip of the tail of the upper arm, where the **** meets the mainspring, may have broken off ?
Is that correct ?

No the spring cracked near the Pan I got it welded but its lost its' Umph ' Come to that so have I But still warrants finally finishing it ' that fore stock is three pieces joined & the rod hole go'se right through wood no scraping the barrel Curly' Sycamore' Saved from the fate of Derbyshire Fence posts being chain sawn .They couldn't
SEE the figure muzzle end is horn I started it nye 60 years ago ! Bore s Damascus bit rough still used it. Regards Rudyard

 

[rickystl]

No the spring cracked near the Pan I got it welded but its lost its' Umph ' Come to that so have I But still warrants finally finishing it ' that fore stock is three pieces joined & the rod hole go'se right through wood no scraping the barrel Curly' Sycamore' Saved from the fate of Derbyshire Fence posts being chain sawn .They couldn't
SEE the figure muzzle end is horn I started it nye 60 years ago ! Bore s Damascus bit rough still used it. Regards Rudyard

OK. Couldn't see that. Does the mainspring look more like the one in the photo you posted ? (Which may be the exact lock you are talking about ?) Or does it look more like the one in the photo that I posted ?

Sometimes welding on the mainspring will work. Other times it doesn't. The spring is still too weak.

Rick

 

[Vova]

Cześć i witaj Vova! I believe this a pretty early Ottoman Miquelet, due to the trigger/triggerguard and how the lock is not of the later standardized form. It is similar to these 17th century examples captured in Austro-Hungary in the 1680's-1690's that clearly took more inspiration from the Spanish locks they were based on.
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Green dyed bone was a popular decoration on these guns. Green being a sacred color in Islam, as mentioned by @PhDBrewer
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Thank you masters of craft/history for the interesting point outs!
I've checked all pages here before wrote the post (many amazing pieces!). As Ricky and Cyten said, the shape of lock and divided **** (with a brass "neck" part) is kinda unusual so rather asked.
Thanks for the picture of rifle you've sent! It's also very similar due silver plating and brass divided neck of ****.
About the green inlay, tried to cut it a bit from the bottom part by scalpel and it's green even in core and bone structure. Could be dyed by chemicals which are able to get deep in structure of the thin plates. Gonna try make the recipe with verdigris.

Best regards!
Vova

 

[TobJohn]

Thank you masters of craft/history for the interesting point outs!
I've checked all pages here before wrote the post (many amazing pieces!). As Ricky and Cyten said, the shape of lock and divided **** (with a brass "neck" part) is kinda unusual so rather asked.
Thanks for the picture of rifle you've sent! It's also very similar due silver plating and brass divided neck of ****.
About the green inlay, tried to cut it a bit from the bottom part by scalpel and it's green even in core and bone structure. Could be dyed by chemicals which are able to get deep in structure of the thin plates. Gonna try make the recipe with verdigris.

Best regards!
Vova

Thank you for provide an update and more information on the green material. Very interesting mystery!

 

[rickystl]

Hi Rudyard. Still looking in my parts locks. LOL

 

[Rudyard]

Hi Rudyard. Still looking in my parts locks. LOL

Must be a big parts box great news , I have a parts box but mostly Kit Ravenshears old stuff ..nothing Ethnological.
Regards Rudyard

 

[rickystl]

Actually, multiple boxes. LOL I found one lock very similar to yours. But it too, had a broken mainspring.

But here is an Ottoman/Turkish lock that's complete. The mainspring is still super strong like most. And the full length of the upper arm is right at 3 1/4 inches, like yours. The length of the short arm is 1 1/4 inches. The gap, in the middle, between the two arms, is 7/16 inch.

So measure the length of your short arm and the space between both arms of your lock.

Hopefully, we will get your gun working again.

 

[rickystl]

Woops. here's the pic of the lock.