What is it???

[WRussell]

Sure is a puzzler. Have you contacted the seller for more pics?

If it's an amalgamation, it's a very strange mechanism. It looks too much all of a plane to be a random amalgamation. What happened to the spur on top of the cock? Doesn't look there was ever room for one. Maybe it's a Miquelet type, with an arm sticking down from the top jaw into a slot? It has some well defined features, like the V at the lower right, that just don't compute. The oval hole is reminiscent of a snapping matchlock.

Who knows - this may be the very first flintlock mechanism, adapted from a matchlock :hmm:

You're going to have to buy this, Robin, and do a thorough analysis :grin:

 

[WRussell]

Got it! Nutcracker, circa 1965.

 

[blacksmithshoppe]

Has anyone guessed it right yet?
Jeff

 

[robinghewitt]

You're going to have to buy this, Robin, and do a thorough analysis :grin:

I have top bid on it but I ain't about to go crazy :rotf:

I already have lead apostle caps and a primer flask cap. The loops were for the strings that held te apostle, stopped you losing the cap. 20 pennies for scale :grin:

 

[Stumpkiller]

20¢! Them are hard come by.

 

[WRussell]

You definitely qualify as the guy with the coolest toys. :thumbsup:

 

[robinghewitt]

You're going to have to buy this, Robin, and do a thorough analysis :grin:

I now have the dubious honour of owning a whatever-it-is... :thumbsup:

...along with four apostle caps and what looks like a metal priming flask in two pieces :rotf:

I'll post again with much better pics as soon as it arrives, although it will probably turn out to be part of a die cast zinc Bucaneer pistol from the 1960's :grin:

Happy Christmas

Squire Robin

 

[benvenuto]

Its a dog off a wheellock... a very odd one

The lead apostle lids are cool - years ago I saw a leather apostle with a hinged pewter lid (apparently the cavalry had them). The owner had found it in a box of old junk at an auction. He was a lucky man, he also owned a 14th century italian sword that had been traded to egypt then the sudan then back to a victorian bungalow as war spoils (complete with hippo skin sheath!)

 

[Toomuch_36]

Maybe a cannon lock? Just guessing
Bill

Thids was my first guess too, and the apostle caps mabey from priming charges.

Toomuch
............
Shoot Flint

 

[robinghewitt]

it will probably turn out to be part of a die cast zinc Bucaneer pistol from the 1960's :grin:

Upon my prophetic soul, that's exactly what it is :rotf: