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Coming shortly,
I pay for it on Thursday the 6th and should have it by the middle of next week.
1851 Austrian pistol with tube lock.
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Vendor’s photos.
 
A little different than a Lancaster I saw, years ago.
Cool, short, period of arm’s development.
Congrats
 
Interesting ignition system, suggestion on priming compound in the construction of the tube - The old white tipped barn burner matches if you can find them, when young and not so shall we say smart, we would take these matches and use a pocketknife (old Barlow) scrape carefully off the match heads on to a sheet of paper, take the scrapings put in a 22 cal. long empty rifle case. crimp the case shut with a pair of pliers, lay it on an anvil and whack it with a hammer. big bang. And if dark big flash. Might be better than gathering the compound in the top hat caps.
 
Unfortunately such matches were banned here years ago, the local versions were known as ‘wax matches’ because the stem was heavily waxed with white wax.
Story goes that fires were started because rodents gnawed the heads and one bloke, at least, had the container go off in his pocket when he fell over.
They would have been ideal for priming.
 
Interesting ignition system, suggestion on priming compound in the construction of the tube - The old white tipped barn burner matches if you can find them, when young and not so shall we say smart, we would take these matches and use a pocketknife (old Barlow) scrape carefully off the match heads on to a sheet of paper, take the scrapings put in a 22 cal. long empty rifle case. crimp the case shut with a pair of pliers, lay it on an anvil and whack it with a hammer. big bang. And if dark big flash. Might be better than gathering the compound in the top hat caps.
Those matches mysteriously disappeared years ago. I bought a number of boxes when I realized they were scarce but have no idea where they are.
 
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