Nicholas-Noël Boutet & Jean LePage

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I heard through the grapevine, will tie me to the whipping pole

Perhaps you should be tied to the whipping pole Fernando, if only for a few lashes, heard it through the grapevine is gossip, not research, I know you know that, and I am just having a little fun with you.

With much respect and a wink

Mike

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Originally Posted by survtech

... heard it through the grapevine is gossip, not research ...

Mike, to tell you the truth, i didn't hear it through the grapevine. It is just that i had no permission to publish the author's name; one supposed to know rather well what he is talking about. So this is the way that i realized would be the trick !

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More from the grapevine ... or should i say, courtesy Rainer Daehnhardt .


" For those who are willing to learn and never handled very long pistol barrels of royal provenance remounted at a later period:
Here is a Louis XIII wheellock pistol barrel of the XVIIth century used at Napoleon’s time to create a small flintlock fowler for a young boy.
The other barrel still exists in a museum, all complete with it’s french wheelock ignition system and it’s original butt. Who put it together was an apprentice of the LePage shop in a difficult political period, when LePage was closed.
The small boy’s fowler with a spanish boot-butt was created by using a number of elements of a royal bavarian wheellock pistol of the turn of the XVIth to the XVIIth century to be used at the Munique Court of the Elector of Bavaria.
The barrel is heavily chiseled with gold leave ground rather similar to the 1584 pistols. The reason is simple. Most gunmakers working in Lisbon by then were of German origin so their guns were born out with the same taste. What is very unusual on this marriage of elements of two different periods is that they did not only use the early barrel but also the ramrod pipes, the butt finial, the barrel tang and even a major part of the lockplate ".

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A) Louis XIII wheellock pistol barrel remounted on a napoleonic boy’s flintlock fowler.
B) The muzzle portion of the same Louis XIII pistol barrel. In excelent condition.
C) The ramrod pipes of the Munique wheellock pistol barrel all heavily chiselled and the ground gilt, quite similar to the work of the 1584 pistol barrels. Only those hardly saw any use at all.


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Further material from Professor Daehnardt ...

D) The center view of the Munique Court wheellock pistol barrel.

E) The lower view of the same showing also the barrel tang of its use in Spain together with the original Munique School heavily chiseled barrel with gold leave ground.


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Yet another one ...


Details of the muzzle of the long wheellock pistol barrel made either by DANIEL SADELER or CASPAR SPÄT.


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