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Offline mazo kid

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Unusual pistol
« on: October 06, 2020, 12:42:07 PM »
I have had this pistol for a while too. It was wire-brushed before I got it so any markings are gone.
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Re: Unusual pistol
« Reply #1 on: October 06, 2020, 12:43:45 PM »
Any ideas as to it's origin?
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Re: Unusual pistol
« Reply #2 on: October 06, 2020, 12:45:37 PM »
Engraving...what's left of it!
« Last Edit: October 06, 2020, 12:48:41 PM by mazo kid »
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Re: Unusual pistol
« Reply #3 on: October 07, 2020, 11:11:24 AM »
Yeah, peculiar, but nice! The lock looks different from what would be expected from an 1830-to-1840 caplock pistol. Has it been converted from flintlock?
Would you mind explain how that lock fuunctions?
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Re: Unusual pistol
« Reply #4 on: October 07, 2020, 11:24:40 AM »
JMHO but it appears as if a snail/frizzen cover has been added to convert a flintlock to percussion?
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Re: Unusual pistol
« Reply #5 on: October 07, 2020, 02:49:49 PM »
It's a miquelet lock. Probably Spanish in origin and probably restocked as well. I don't think I've ever seen a miquelet/percussion conversion before.
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Re: Unusual pistol
« Reply #6 on: October 07, 2020, 06:14:27 PM »
I sure don't know about a percussion conversion. There is seemingly no provision that a frizzen was ever on the pistol that I can see. I thought maybe that assembly about the hammer might be a safety, but it doesn't appear to move.
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Re: Unusual pistol
« Reply #7 on: October 07, 2020, 06:59:12 PM »
Maybe it was cobbled together out of parts but there's no doubt the lock is a miquelet. Or rather started out as one.
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Re: Unusual pistol
« Reply #8 on: October 08, 2020, 09:03:37 AM »
Yes, agreed. And just maybe the lock was re-shaped, thus getting rid of a frizzen screw hole. Just thinking out loud here.
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Re: Unusual pistol
« Reply #9 on: October 14, 2020, 01:22:39 PM »
I pulled the lock off to see the workings. It is a small lock and surprisingly complex. The sear works laterally (horizontally) through the lock plate.
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Re: Unusual pistol
« Reply #10 on: October 15, 2020, 01:14:27 PM »
Very unusual. I never saw anything like that. How is the feel of the trigger?
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Re: Unusual pistol
« Reply #11 on: October 18, 2020, 10:56:58 AM »
Len, the trigger is quite light, with NO creep.  Very crisp.
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Re: Unusual pistol
« Reply #12 on: October 18, 2020, 10:58:49 AM »
One last picture showing the lock at full cock. There is no half cock position.
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Re: Unusual pistol
« Reply #13 on: November 05, 2020, 06:00:45 AM »
it is very interesting.
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