New arms museulogic nucleus in Portugal - Part four

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Hi Michael,
Thank you for your expert coments.

Originally Posted by Matchlock

... - pics 2-6, background: a Portuguese type snaphaunce gun, attributed by Daehnhardt to the 16th century but probably later; I have known this gun for quite a few years and from a Hermann Historica sale in the 1980's and still have some doubts about it ...

I see your point. Amazingly Daehnhardt vastly refers to this piece, in a book he wrote, as being a petronel made in the Lisbon arsenal around 1560-1580.
It is apparently equiped with a portuguese horse neck 'molinhas' lock.

Originally Posted by Matchlock

... - pic 7: a Portuguese type spaphauce pistol which arouses at least as many doubts as the gun discussed in the previous paragraph...

Another one of these things . In the same book, he states that this piece, which exceptionaly keeps its original stock, is of Portuguese manufacture, end XVI century, with a 'molinhas' lock with brake, a la Portuguese. At the time of such publication this specimen was part of Col. W. Keith Neal collection.

Originally Posted by Matchlock

... - pics 9 and 10: a Portuguese miquelet lock hunting fowler, 18th c., and a late 16th century style Portuguese or Italian miquelet lock petronel, composite, the stock modern and of inadequate shape ...

I am a bit lost with the info tags, as i didn't mind to picture the index numbers near the weapons and now, in some cases, i am not sure which is which; but i would say that the patilha lock fowler was made by Bamgru, a smith from Pangim, dated 1779; with a Moghul barrel with gold koftgary inlay.
The other flintlock gun would have been made in the Goa arsenal, under Italian guidance, end XVI century. The lock is the Anselmo type, with a dog-catch, the Portuguese-Singhalese manner.

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