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Old 31st March 2011, 07:56 PM   #7
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Sadly not one single gun with a complete mechanism of this kind seems to have survived. On the gun in the Royal Armouries Leeds at least the spring of the serpentine is still there. On a similar arquebus in the Vienna collection, stocked for a left handed shooter, the tender tinder serpentine has been replaced in the correct way. So this item conveys a good impression of what these mechanisms looked like.

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Michael
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