revolving matchlock musket

[Bartek]

It is revolving matchlock musket, whish i found by one of our gunsmiths. It's beauty :bow:
Dos someone of You know any example of original specimen of a musket like this (books, articles, museum collections) :hmm: ? :

 

[RobF]

That is a beautiful piece of work. I've heard of a revolving matchlock, but thats the first one I've seen.[url] http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Campground/8551/firearms.html[/url]
This site has a reference to a revolving matchlock built for King Louis XIII of france.

Rob

 

[bezoar]

God thats a beautiful gun. All it needs is a paterson loading lever and it would be tops.

never seen one anywhere, they supposedly from what ive read were made and then destroyed, something about impractibility.

 

[ayetter2003]

who made it?

 

The only original reference that I have at hand is a picture (without much information, only dated 1620) in a translated book from Harold Peterson. That gun is very similar, could even shave served as model.

I remeber seeing at least two more, but where? Darned.

 

[spitfire]

Wow :applause: !Nice matchlock.I have seen a Original Japanese Teppo Matchlock Revolver before.

 

[benvenuto]

theres several examples in Howard Blackmores book "Guns and Rifles of the world". Can't give you the page number, I am "cleaning up" the house and the books lost somewhere.

 

[WRussell]

Plates 547-558

 

[Bartek]

It's one guy in Warsaw. He's proffesional gunsmith, not a hobby gunmaker. He makes replicas of XVI-XVII fire-arms for most reenactors here. I have his e-mail, if You wish.
:hatsoff:

 

[benvenuto]

haha thanks! :thumbsup:

 

[robinghewitt]

Plates 547-558

Do we guess 557 but he wasn't quite up to it :thumbsup:

 

[arilar]

Plates 547-558

Do we guess 557 but he wasn't quite up to it :thumbsup:

Robin,
Is it possibly for you to reproduce that page here for us poor souls not having that book? :cursing: :bow:
ARILAR :grin: :thumbsup:

 

[robinghewitt]

 

[arilar]

Thanks Robin, your the best :hatsoff: !!
Nice gun :shocked2: but I think I could settle for that Warsaw piece :winking: .
ARILAR :grin: :thumbsup:

 

[wheelockhunter]

It would be nice to be able to build one, anywhere you can get the information on how to?

 

[benvenuto]

If you are very good with a lathe and have an open top colt revolver to look at, it shouldn't be hard. The cylinder was manually rotated and locked into place with a manual catch.
The pan covers look like they slide in dovetails. In this case they are manually operated too.
The lock is a regualr sear lock, the butt is a fishtail type with a bit of an italian/french style downward curve to it.

Sam Colt wasn't very original in his designs. He looked at a lot of these old revolving guns before he came up with his own design.