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					Originally Posted by Pukka Bundook
					
				 Philip,
 Although this lock has the same horizontal sear as the locks you mention, I have never (in my sheltered life!) seen one so simply constructed!
 Even on the earliest locks, like snapping tinderlocks, the sear has always been mounted using  a pivot pin.
 This one is really New to me.
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 Just for the record here is another percussion lock with the same archaic sear mechanism.