Pistols and muskets
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All our copies are matching the original pieces they come from. The firing mechanisme is totally functionnal, but the vent is not drilled, therefore not allowing the weapon to fire. Please see our

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MQ130 - English Civil War Dog Lock Cavalry Pistol - 295€

This pistol is an excellent representation of the evolution of flintlocks. It may be called either a simplified snaphaunce or an early dog lock. Both descriptions are in fact correct. The sear lug protruding though the lockplate behind the cock, and the use of a "buffer" to stop the descent of the cock when fired remind the snaphauce. The elements for the dog lock are clearly to be seen, top : lever holding the cock at the half, frizzen replacing the old "battery".

Length 64cm. Pictures

MQ133 - 16th century matchlock pistol - 250€

The bowl shapped pommel of this pistol is typical of the 16th century, as is the firing mechanisme : a lever allow to move the match into the powder, and to fire.

Length 64cm, weigth 1.1kg. Pictures


MQ104 - 17th century Matchlock Musquette - 310€


This matchlock musket is crafted in the Swedish style, but have been use in England and France during all the first half of the 17th century. Matchlock firing systems were seen as much more secure than the first flint firing devices, but could not be used during bad weather. They disapear from 1660 on, when the new flint lock systems spread (see below).


 Length 145cm, weigth 4.00kg. 19mm caliber. The seamless tempered barrel is made of high carbon steel (type:BS970 no.080M40).

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MQ102 - 17th century Flintlock Musquette - 380€

The flintlock musket replaces the matchlock ones during the second half of the 17th century. Such weapons were so used by almost all european armies. The next step will be mass production and standardization, and the use of the bayonet (se our 18th centuries muskets)

 Length 145cm, weigth 4.00kg. 19mm caliber. The frizzen cover is case hardened, and the seamless tempered barrel is made of high carbon steel (type:BS970 no.080M40). The breech is threaded.

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MQ132 - Scottish Highland Pistol ( Murdoch Style) - 320€

Pistols were considered requisite items for the Highland soldier as early as the 1730s. By the 1740s the elegant pistol styles of Christie & Murdoch (armourers of Doune, Stirlingshire) had became the most sought after amongst Highland officers. The unique elements of the Doune pistols were the scroll or rams horn butt, fluted barrels at the breech and the octagonal flared muzzles.

Our replica represents one of the many copies made at that time by scottish pistol makers. The steel pistol was used in the ranks of Highland Regiments into the 1780s, when a less expensive (and less elegant) bronze pistol began to challenge the dominance of the steel version in the ranks of Britain's Highland Regiments. By the mid-1790s Highland Regiments had abondoned their pistols. Highland sergeants and men wore one steel pistol under the left arm, hung through the pistol's belt hook on a thin buff leather belt.

Also see our Claymore

Length 34cm. Pictures


MQ101 - French infantry musket 1728, 1746 modified - 450€

The beginning of the 18th century showed a great improvement in the french army muskets, with the etablishing of a standardized model, the 1717. He was soon modified under M de Vallière, to become the 1728 musket. This weapon is a fine example of the elegant curves in musket stocks in the early 18th century. Note especially the shape of the butt.

He will beimproved again in the 1740s, with the standardized use of a steel ramrod in 1743 and, after 1746, the removing of the pan/frizzen bridle.This another copy is soon to be sold.

This weapon was carried by the majority of French troops during the French and Indian War, including the well known "Compagnies franches de la Marine" and the "Regiment de Béarn".

In France, the story of the 1728 ends in 1763, when it is replaced by a shorter a ligther musket, the Charleville. In North America, its carreer carries on, for the french government sold some of them to the US army, which used them during the independance wars

 Length without bayonet 156cm, weigth 4.00kg. 18mm caliber. The frizzen cover is case hardened, and the seamless tempered barrel is made of high carbon steel (type:BS970 no.080M40). The breech is threaded. Pictures

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