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A Very Rare Miniature 'Snaphaunce' PistolUnsigned, Edo Period
22 April 2009, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,320 inc. premium
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Unsigned, Edo Period
Unsigned, Edo Period
With tapering barrel with flared octagonal muzzle, block back-sight and standing fore-sight, iron back-action lock engraved with foliage, iron cock with fluted edges acting against a coiled internal mainspring and held in the full cock position by a sere projecting through the lock-plate, steel-faced brass frizzen, brass pan-cover, figured full stock (repaired along one side of the fore-end), button trigger, later iron ramrod, and brass suspension swivel mounted beneath
11 cm.
11 cm.
Footnotes
Flintlock and snaphaunce firearms of Japanese manufacture are seldom encountered due to the inability of the Japanese to make steel springs. The coiled mainspring in this pistol is made of brass








