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In this case I think not. I photographed this at the Birmingham Proof House museum. It's the same one as pictured in Greener's book The Gun and its Development: <img src="http://www.hunt101.com/data/500/medium/25041Picture_File_723.jpg" />
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YABC, is that an acronym for Yust Another British Clunker?
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I think it's nice, in a strange kind of way.
Definitely different.
Rust never sleeps !
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Incredible work of art. Who is the maker ?
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I cannot begin to fathom the difficulty and skill involved in making this gun! Those hammers!
When an old man dies a library burns to the ground. (Old African proverb)
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Were those hammers cast?
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i think it would be more difficult to make two molds than carve the hammers.great work
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No, Mike, those hammers would have been hand carved from a block of iron or a rough forging at best. It is difficult in our culture to comprehend the incredible skill workmen in that era possessed. The human has almost unlimited artistic and mechanical ability given the environment to cultivate it.
When an old man dies a library burns to the ground. (Old African proverb)
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