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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.