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Post by artificer on Sept 4, 2020 11:19:21 GMT -7
That worked, thank you. Some absolutely beautiful super tree curl on that simplistic rifle gun. Beautiful lines throughout, they flow elegantly with no pizazz. My style of rifle! Notice the roller bearing on the steel, I'm wondering if for sure this is the original lock for the rifle or a replacement that was installed later on into the earlier parts of the 19th century? I'll have to double check but I'm almost certain the roller bearing was showing up more promptly around 1824ish and on. Though the Roller Bearing on the Feather Spring came out earlier in high grade locks, Ketland was offering plain locks with Roller Bearings as early as 1810. Gus |
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Post by hawkeyes on Sept 4, 2020 14:50:12 GMT -7
I'm still puzzled to the manufacturer of the lock. Has some late English styling but an entirely different pan from the mass imported locks of the day. I'd very much like to see the internals!
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