Expo number 29

 

Lock

With rounded surfaces, the dog with jaws of duck's bill shape and with a neck of angular section, manually-operated pan-cover, slightly convex external wheel with a hook at the bottom, the plate marked I on the exterior side.

 

Barrel

With octagonal breech becoming circular after a narrow incised moulding, blade front-sight and winged back-sight, both iron; marked on the left breech face with the image of a hen with the letter 'C' in its belly (St. 1729), the word SVL (not in St.) and 'EK' (cf. St. 2427).

 

Stock

With flattened comb to the butt; struck with the letter or Roman figure 'V' behind the breech-strap.

 

Mounts

Iron, comprising: flat fore-end cap, one cylindrical ramrod-pipe, scooped trigger-guard, of which the rear end stands away from the stock, flat butt-plate; iron-tipped ramrod.

 

Remarks

(HISTORY) This type of munition (military-issue) carbine was, together with its paddle-butted counterpart (cf. Cat. 15 and 16), exported in large quantities to several countries including the Dutch Republic. This partly explains why it is still found in many collections.

(OBSERVATIONS) It is difficult to date this gun exactly, but the third quarter of the 17th C is an estimate based on Støckel's dating of the hen mark (St. 1729) to c. 1685, and the EK mark (St. 2427) to 1650-1680.

 

Literature

-Støckel (Vol. II, 1943) p. 482, 561-562.