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[Matchlock]

A fine and unusual Swiss musket rest for a heavy matchlock musket, ca. 1600-20, combined with a very rare match holder serpentine corresponding to that of the musket, on its original carved and figured ash-wood haft and fitted with a characteristic pointed iron and copper-soldered shoe.
The iron parts retaining their 'untouched' original blackened surface.

Interestingly enough, the shoe is pierced for a nail which was never there though. Anyway, it fitted perfectly without a nail for 400 years!

Author's collection.

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