A Very Rare Baltic Snaphaunce Military Rifle. 49” overall, 38 ½” heavy octagonal 40 bore barrel rifled with 6 deep grooves. Plain tang, adjustable rear & fore sight. Characteristic flat lock with notched external mainspring, horizontal sear, elongated cock with long jaws with a ring for cocking. ‘L’ shaped dog, pine full stock, fluted triangular tiller shaped butt, with a slightly hollowed cheek piece, patch box on bottom of the butt with hinged cover, long iron crossbow style trigger guard, wooden ramrod, possibly original, with iron tip.
Swedish Circa 1560-1600
A very early rifle in good condition for age, rifling good, lock still works, sparked when I tried it.
For a rifle with very similar lock in the Kremlin, Moscow (inv. no. 6829) see Howard L. Blackmore: ‘Guns and Rifles of the World’ 1965, pl. 138