Gunlock (Flintlock) on a Dummy Breech of a 12-Pounder Cannon

Inscriptions

inscription, on the breech:KORT KANON à 12 lb / NATUURLYKE GROOTTE.
inscription, on the lock:Brignol à Paris / an 12; VI
mark, on the lock: various marks

Provenance

...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883

ObjectNumber: NG-MC-698

Entry

Right-handed gunlock (flintlock) mounted on a dummy breech of a 12-pounder gun.

The lock has a brass box with iron mechanism, trigger, cock, pan cover and tail bolt with wing nut. The upper jaw of the cock is missing. The lock is fastened with the tail bolt going through the base ring. The pan has a priming pan extension.

Flintlocks for cannon were introduced to the Dutch Navy after 1810. Models of this kind were sent to Liège, in order to pass on the correct measurements for the vent patch before casting the cannon.

Literature

J.N. Calten, Leiddraad bij het onderrigt in de zee-artillerie, Delft 1832, p. 339, pl. X; J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 698

Citation

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Rijkswerf Vlissingen and Brignol, Gunlock (Flintlock) on a Dummy Breech of a 12-Pounder Cannon, , c. 1801', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244513

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