EDO PERIOD (LATE 18TH CENTURY)

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A RARE CONVERTED MATCHLOCK GUN
EDO PERIOD (LATE 18TH CENTURY)
THE GUN CONVERTED FROM MATCHLOCK TO PILL LOCK, THE PAN-COVER FORMING THE STRIKER, THE BARREL FITTED WITH A RECTANGULAR HORIZONTAL BRASS MAGAZINE FOR THE PRIMERS WHICH ARE FED INTO THE PAN BY A HAND-OPERATED PLUNGER WITH WOODEN FINIAL, AND A THUMB OPERATED LEAVER TO RAISE THE HAMMER, WITH AN IRON STIRRUP RAMROD WITH HOOKED AND SCROLLED TIP
95.5CM. LONG

Literature

MICHAEL DEAN, LE PALAIS SANADA ET L'ECOLE BUNBU, LA MAISON YOKATA ET LES ARMES A FEU SECRETES DU FIEF MATSUSHIRO, BULLETIN ASSOCIATION FRANCO-JAPONAISE, NO. 63 (JANUARY 1999), P. 10-11, FIGS. 9 AND 11.

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Lot Essay

THIS COMPLICATED CONVERSION WAS INVENTED IN MATSUSHIRO FIEF IN NAGANO PREFECTURE BY SAKUMA SHOZAN, A CHEMIST AND PHYSICIAN, IN THE 19TH CENTURY. IT IS MAINLY FROM HIS NOTEBOOKS THAT THIS TYPE OF GUN IS KNOWN IN JAPAN. A SIMILAR EXAMPLE IS IN THE SANADA MUSEUM IN MITSUHIRO.

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