Snaphance - Wikipedia
A snaphance or snaphaunce is a type of firearm lock in which a flint struck against a striker plate above a steel pan ignites the priming powder which fires the gun. [1] It is the mechanical …
The English Snaphance Lock - The Muzzleloading Forum
Apr 21, 2004 · The English snaphance is not only one of the most innovative "flint-locks" but is probably one of the rarest gun mechanisms to have survived. Recent research has found that …
History of the Snaphance Firing Mechanism - ThePirateKing.com
The Term Snaphance or Snaphaunce refers to a mechanism for igniting a firearm's propellant in a muzzle loading gun. The mechanism, which first appeared in the late 1550s, uses flint and …
The English snaphance is not only one of the most innovative "flint-locks" but is probably one of the rarest gun mechanisms to have survived. Recent research has found that only about 80 …
What's the difference between a snaplock, snaphance, wheellock ... - Reddit
May 27, 2020 · Snapha (u)nce or Dutch lock (from ger. Schnapphahn or 'pecking hen') was an improvement of snaplock introduced somewhere around late 1540s.
Here is first a Swedish gun with snaplock, from about 1575 (Pic 4). It has separate steel and pancover of swing-out pattern. Such a lock in Swedish was called "laggelas" meaning "putting …
How To Identify Antique Firearm Locks | Rock Island Auction
Learn to identify antique matchlocks, wheellocks, snaphance, flintlocks, miquelets, doglocks, boxlocks, and percussion lock firearms.
Snaphance - Academic Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
A Snaphance or Snaphaunce is a particular type of mechanism for firing a gun (or a gun using that mechanism). Like the earlier snaplock and later flintlock , the snaphaunce drives a flint …
Snaphance - acearchive.org
A 'snaphance' or 'snaphaunce' is a type of firearm lock where flint strikes a steel plate above a pan of priming powder, igniting it and firing the gun. It is a mechanical progression of the …
NRA Museum's 17th-Century Beretta - NRA Family
Feb 19, 2018 · This seventeenth-century Italian folding-stock snaphance bears a tapered barrel signed by Giovanni Batt Dafino with an elegantly scalloped lock made by Claudio Beretta, and …