Object data
iron and brass
height 9.7 cm × width 19 cm × depth 4.1 cm
anonymous
Gun Lock (Percussion)
Netherlands, 1840 - 1860
Inscriptions
- inscription, on the lock: 16
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-1050
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Percussion lock consisting of a brass body and an iron hammer.
The body is mounted lengthwise at the right-hand side of the vent patch with two bolts. The hammer turns on an axle between two small cheeks and has a hole for the lanyard in the shaft. It strikes the primer at an angle, set in a hole in the body (called the anvil); the spark comes out at the other end of the body and is passed to the vent.
This lock, called percussion lock N° 1, became the regulation percussion lock of the Dutch Navy. The design prevented the flame that comes out of the vent from violently striking the hammer back.
Literature
B.G. Escher, ‘Proefnemingen met percussie-pijpjes, sloten en hamertoestellen. Met eene plaat’, Verhandelingen en berigten betrekkelijk het zeewezen (1845), no. 5, pp. 457-73, p. 457; H. van Goens, Handleiding tot de kennis van de zee-artillerie, Rotterdam 1861-65, p. 161, pl. II, fig. 6; Reglementen op de exercitien met het geschut aan boord van de schepen en vaartuigen van oorlog, 2 vols., Den Haag 1856, vol. 2, p. 109, pl. XIV; J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1050
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Gun Lock (Percussion), Netherlands, 1840 - 1860', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244865
(accessed 24 November 2024 11:50:30).