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What Stan said "The ancient Nautilus shell is a symbol of proportional perfection."

Perfect, indeed. For, consider who the designer is.

SRH

I had no clue there was so much and varied dolphin symbolism
Protection
Good fortune
Love and Aphrodite
2 dolphins = friendship
Historical Christian; including Christ and the resurrection
http://traditionalcatholicism83.blogspot.com/2011/10/dolphin-in-christian-symbolism-among.html

St. Brendan's Cross with 2 dolphins
https://www.seiyaku.com/customs/crosses/brendan.html

St. Clement's or Mariner's Cross
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Clement_I

"We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure..." - Hebrews 6:19
Cross, anchor and dolphin



Dolphin and anchor together symbolize the proverb Festina lente which means "Hasten slowly" WHICH IS GOOD ADVICE FOR THE SHOOTER.

Miller, here's the commonly used definition of Percussion System.

Percussion Lock - Based on a discovery by the Rev. Alexander Forsyth, patented in 1807, that a blow to fulminate of mercury will detonate it, through several designs to utilize the concept with limited success, culminating in the adoption of the copper priming cap. This small, cup-shaped cap, containing a bit of fulminate, after the hammer is cocked, is placed upside-down on the tubular-conical nipple. To fire the gun, one pulls the trigger, releasing the spring-loaded hammer which falls on the head of the percussion cap, detonating the fulminate, sending fire through the hole in the nipple to the main charge inside the breech (having been loaded from the muzzle) touching it off and discharging the weapon. The percussion system superseded the flintlock system generally around 1820 because it was more reliable in the wind and the rain, quicker to load, of faster lock time and because it was cheaper to manufacture. Photo

To find photos of the Percussion System , go to this extract from the Hallowell website and click on the Photo icon, or look here.

http://www.hallowellco.com/percussion_lock.htm

Darly Hallquist...are you lost in space ?

Yes, was aware of what a percussion system is. Was commenting on this statement;

"The dolphin hammer may have started with pinfires and continued over to percussion;"

In actuality, any system which detonates a combustible mixture by a blow is a percussion system, it is not confined to a ML'er. A pinfire is a percussion system as is a modern day Benelli. Admitting that percussion was initially used to differentiate from a flintlock, most systems which followed were percussion.

Miller, I doubt anyone would think of a pinfire , or a 22 long rifle, or any other you mention like a Benelli when a gun was referred to as a percussion gun. The common use for that term, Percussion gun, is a muzzleloader fired with a cap.

I see the confusion caused by Drew's reversal of the pinfire and percussion. He, of course had the terms in a reversed order. I think we can possibly come up with the dolphin motif on earlier systems including flintlock, and others earlier than that. It was just a description of what inspired the hammer shape.

Thanks for helping me understand what a dolphin hammer is!

Daryl is correct, and I edited my first post to avoid confusion

I'm more inclined to believe the tightly curling upon itself scroll is taken from a more terrestrial or woodland motif, that being the fern head or "fiddlehead" we are accustomed to seeing in the springtime, than that of the nautilus.

https://www.wideopeneats.com/everything-need-know-fiddleheads/