Thanks Dr. Bob. I think we had fun and got full, even though we had anxiety about running out of wine.

bsteele, I had never thought of the "fireballs" , as you put it, around the firing pin holes, but surely that is what they are showing. Then maybe the gargoyle is old Lucifer himself.

I did put up another picture on the first post showing the left lock in good detail. The period seems to have been the time of the highest development in skill and art in gunmaking.

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