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C2N14... because life is not energetic enough. מנא, מנא, תקל, ופרסין Daniel 5:25-28... Got 7.62?
Not Depressed enough yet? Go read National Geographic, July 1976 Gott und Gewehr mit uns!
One posit by a poster suggests that it is a late 1800s "Watchman's Lantern/gun" because the lamp is apparently an 1881 "police lantern" of a specific european make....
C2N14... because life is not energetic enough. מנא, מנא, תקל, ופרסין Daniel 5:25-28... Got 7.62?
Not Depressed enough yet? Go read National Geographic, July 1976 Gott und Gewehr mit uns!
The lamp is a post 1881 Dietz
"bullseye" police lamp, that originally had a oil burner instead of the
candle.
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If I had to "Venture" a Guess, this was a "Constable's" Pistol/Light Combination (a Late 18th century, Early 19-th century Police Officer Night Patrolman's Gun)...
C2N14... because life is not energetic enough. מנא, מנא, תקל, ופרסין Daniel 5:25-28... Got 7.62?
Not Depressed enough yet? Go read National Geographic, July 1976 Gott und Gewehr mit uns!
An 1880's lantern on a flintlock? I could believe it if it were a cartridge gun or a very much earlier lantern was on the flint pistol. They fit together like an Oerlikon 20 mm cannon on the deck of the Constitution.
Hawkeye2 wrote:An 1880's lantern on a flintlock? I could believe it if it were a cartridge gun or a very much earlier lantern was on the flint pistol. They fit together like an Oerlikon 20 mm cannon on the deck of the Constitution.
We are talking Europe here...
C2N14... because life is not energetic enough. מנא, מנא, תקל, ופרסין Daniel 5:25-28... Got 7.62?
Not Depressed enough yet? Go read National Geographic, July 1976 Gott und Gewehr mit uns!
Now THAT is the coolest gun I have ever seen! Whoever dreamed that up must have wanted to get even with a wolve that blocked his path to the privy last week. Like ma said, "Thar aint nothing new under the sun! Once I challenged her when she told me there was no two snowflakes alike.