FRENCH AN IX 'ESPINGOLE' ?

[thinreadline]

Originally Posted by Norman McCormick

Oh s--t !!!



P.S. Great gun I wonder where in the house it was found.

Well Norman . apparently it was a Kardomah Coffee House ! I have spent a lot of time in coffee houses and never found anything more exciting than a plastic butter knife !

[M ELEY]

Unbelievable!!!! I could only be so lucky! I've been trying to land a swivel gun over the past decade and here we have a chap that finds one in a deserted building!! I think I'll take up renovating- Very nice naval piece, BTW.

[thinreadline]

Originally Posted by M ELEY

Unbelievable!!!! I could only be so lucky! I've been trying to land a swivel gun over the past decade and here we have a chap that finds one in a deserted building!! I think I'll take up renovating- Very nice naval piece, BTW.

Yes and to make it worse he is not interested in weaponry at all , but neither does he seem keen to sell it ... very frustrating !

[fernando]

Originally Posted by thinreadline

Yes and to make it worse he is not interested in weaponry at all , but neither does he seem keen to sell it ... very frustrating !

Make him an offer he can't refuse ... where have i heard this ?

[thinreadline]

Originally Posted by fernando

Make him an offer he can't refuse ... where have i heard this ?

That's always a tricky negotiation ... if you make a really good offer then they always think .. 'wow it must be worth MUCH more than that ! ' .

[fernando]

Originally Posted by M ELEY

... Very nice naval piece, BTW.

It had to be naval; can't it be swiveled it on a horse saddle or the like ?

[kronckew]

Originally Posted by fernando

It had to be naval; can't it be swiveled it on a horse saddle or the like ?

seek and ye shall find. funny lookin' horse tho.

[fernando]

Outstanding Wayne
Mind you, if the sailor smokes a couple joints and looses his hands firmness, he might shot the horse's head

[kronckew]

Originally Posted by fernando

Outstanding Wayne
Mind you, if the sailor smokes a couple joints and looses his hands firmness, he might shot the horse's head

i will NOT mention the XXX joke about why the camel is called the 'ship of the desert'. it will get me banned. i leave that to your fertile imaginations.

nice barca, fernando. you might want to beef up the gunwales* a tad, they look a bit flimsey for that coffee grinder.

gunwales, or gunnels is of course derived from gun walls, the extension of the hull planking (and later, plating) upwards past the weather deck to which swivel guns (and lines and ropes of all sizes and descriptions) were attached.

sadly, you would need to drill a rather large hole in a horse to mount this swivel gun. which kind of defeats the purpose as the horse would not like that.

[fernando]

Originally Posted by kronckew

i will NOT mention the XXX joke about why the camel is called the 'ship of the desert'. it will get me banned. i leave that to your fertile imaginations.

English pun; no sense in portuguese

Originally Posted by kronckew

...nice barca, fernando..

It is called a lancha (from the malay lancharam ... go figure), in a version exclusive from my fishing home town.

Originally Posted by kronckew

...you might want to beef up the gunwales* a tad, they look a bit flimsey for that coffee grinder...

Wrong angle. This may be a replica but its total length is almost 80 cms ( 31" in your lingo), and its 'amuradas' are thick enough to bear a couple coffee grinders like the one posted by Richmond .

Originally Posted by kronckew

...sadly, you would need to drill a rather large hole in a horse to mount this swivel gun. which kind of defeats the purpose as the horse would not like that.

The hole is already there; the swivel gun position would be an odd one, though. Ah, now comes the ban

[Norman McCormick]

Originally Posted by thinreadline

Well Norman . apparently it was a Kardomah Coffee House ! I have spent a lot of time in coffee houses and never found anything more exciting than a plastic butter knife !

Hi,
You'll never guess, I've found another book that definitely identifies this object as an old style mass produced French coffee grinder and believe it or not I've just got a new kitchen and the one thing I'm lacking is, you guessed it, a coffee grinder. Now, after much deliberation and no mean physical effort I've levered open the sporran and there are twenty one shiny new shillings, THAT'S A WHOLE GUINEA!!!, waiting to be spent on or according to the wife squandered on this rusty old French coffee grinder. Ye might think my name is Carnegie offering all that money but a'm just a poor wee Scotsman in dire need of a coffee grinder.
Yours,
Norman.

[fernando]

Give up the fight, lads
I am the only one who owns a decent boat to install this thing

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