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Flintlock LOCK - What is it?
« on: January 20, 2015, 05:51:59 AM »
Have a guy over at my place trying to figure what the heck lock this is and what it may have been on? To me, I see modern screws and some sorta bubba spring to hold the sear down. The hammer also has no hole for a screw to hold it into place?



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Re: Flintlock LOCK - What is it?
« Reply #1 on: January 20, 2015, 06:45:53 AM »
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Re: Flintlock LOCK - What is it?
« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2015, 05:29:41 PM »
The addresses for the pictures work if you go directly to them.  Maybe the IMG link problem is because dropbox.com is a secure site?  Dunno.

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Re: Flintlock LOCK - What is it?
« Reply #3 on: January 20, 2015, 06:50:04 PM »
It's a lock off a Miroku British Sea Service pistol.
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Re: Flintlock LOCK - What is it?
« Reply #4 on: January 20, 2015, 07:27:15 PM »
YIKES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :o :o
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Re: Flintlock LOCK - What is it?
« Reply #5 on: January 20, 2015, 08:16:49 PM »
I would have guessed it was from the Phillipine Islands based on the screw slots.   ;D

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Re: Flintlock LOCK - What is it?
« Reply #6 on: January 20, 2015, 08:51:38 PM »
My first thought was from Fred Sanford of Sanford and Son.   ;D

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Re: Flintlock LOCK - What is it?
« Reply #7 on: January 21, 2015, 12:54:15 AM »
My first thought was from Fred Sanford of Sanford and Son.   ;D
Give Fred some credit.  That is the ultimate in junk.

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Re: Flintlock LOCK - What is it?
« Reply #8 on: January 21, 2015, 01:06:27 AM »
It's a lock off a Miroku British Sea Service pistol.

Saw one of those just the other day.  A neighbor has it.  O/R bbl and all.  I didn't get to pop the lock off the first time.  Mebbe later-if i have to, but no rush.  :P
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Re: Flintlock LOCK - What is it?
« Reply #9 on: January 21, 2015, 02:00:42 AM »
My first thought was from Fred Sanford of Sanford and Son.   ;D
Give Fred some credit.  That is the ultimate in junk.
Didn't Fred Sanford's sign say "Junk bought and antiques sold"?
 I remember one episode when he found a revolver in some junk
and said if he was caught with it he'd be charged with the assassination
of President Lincoln.

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Re: Flintlock LOCK - What is it?
« Reply #10 on: January 21, 2015, 09:18:50 PM »
 The best part of these guns was that your average Joe couldn't make them shoot. The frizzen was made of cheese, I think. I half soled one of these, when I was just starting muzzleloading, and got it shooting for a friend. The first shot it leaped out of his hand, went about ten feet, and broke the stock. The barrel I referred to in a previous post that has no breech plug came from this gun.

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Re: Flintlock LOCK - What is it?
« Reply #11 on: January 22, 2015, 08:50:49 PM »
There is so much good stuff out there...why do you torture yourself with this?  It will never be more than it already is.
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Re: Flintlock LOCK - What is it?
« Reply #12 on: January 27, 2015, 10:07:57 AM »
 Laugh if you must, but if you were in need of a replica of a British sea service pistol lock, you would have to spend a lot of money to get a lock plate, and hammer, as close to the original as this lock. The internals are junk, but the plate, and hammer, are spot on. The museum in my town has a buck, and ball, gun, that lost its lock some time in the distant past. The lock was replaced with a sea service pistol lock, by a previous owner. When I took the gun apart I expected to find the junk internals like the replica, but was pleasantly surprised, when I found nice quality internal parts.

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Re: Flintlock LOCK - What is it?
« Reply #13 on: March 08, 2015, 02:50:02 PM »
My first thought was from Fred Sanford of Sanford and Son.   ;D
Give Fred some credit.  That is the ultimate in junk.
Didn't Fred Sanford's sign say "Junk bought and antiques sold"?
 I remember one episode when he found a revolver in some junk
and said if he was caught with it he'd be charged with the assassination
of President Lincoln.

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