[Elnathan Barnett]

Lately, I have been toying with the idea of trying to make a replica of a Scandinavian Snaplock from the 16th or 17th century, but there is very little information about them in English, particularly the internal workings. Robert Held has a diagram of on of the internal-mainspring type, and I also have an entry from what I believe is Nonte's Encylopedia of Firearms, which describes the internal workings of a couple different types. In addition, I have a couple low-quality scans from Svenska Gevaers Smeder, and a bunch of pictures taken from the internet - Herman Historica, Christies, some stuff off of various gun boards.

SInce there are a number of folks here from various Scandinavian countries, I thought I'd ask if anybody has some pictures of the insides of these locks, particularly those with external mainsprings. Thanks.

[Jonathan Bridgstock]

Hi,

You might find some in the printed catalogue for the rifle shoppe. They have a heap of photos of internal workings of their products which include snaplocks.

http://therifleshoppe.com/default.htm

cheer,

Jon.

[Elling Polden]

Here are the snaplocks in the Danish royal armouries;
http://www.thm-online.dk/genstande/?textsearc...ce%3Aname=

Snaplocks from norwegian museums;
http://www.digitaltmuseum.no/search?q=snappl%...mp;start=1

[Elnathan Barnett]

Thanks, Elling. Those are very helpful. There is a lot of variation in those guns, I must say.

Jonathan, thanks for the suggestion.