A snaphance or snaphaunce is a type of firearm lock in which a flint struck against a striker plate above a steel pan ignites the priming powder which...

used alongside the matchlock (c. 1410s), the snaplock (c. 1540s), the snaphance (c. 1560s), and the flintlock (c. 1610s). The wheellock works by spinning...

amongst the first to be issued self-igniting guns like the wheellock and snaphance. The matchlock was also uneconomical to keep ready for long periods of...

from the matchlock to wheellock to the earlier flintlocks (snaplock, snaphance, miquelet, and doglock) in the previous two centuries, and each type had...

the armies of the Thirty Years' War and English Civil War era. Like the snaphance, it was largely supplanted by the flintlock. Much like the later flintlock...

prevailed in the Moukahla, one, which derived from Dutch and English types of snaphance lock, usually with a thicker lockplate. Half cock was provided by a dog...

against an enemy. The first firearms to incorporate a cylinder were the snaphance and flintlock types. The lock mechanisms were very similar and used the...

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their appearance in the 16th century in the form of the snaplock, the snaphance, the miquelet, and the doglock. The so-called true flintlock was developed...

Ordnance" chose five local firearms manufacturers to initially produce 200 "snaphance musquets" per month over the period of one year, paying 17 shillings per...

Girandoni air rifle) Explosive-propelled Musket Wheellock Snaplock / snaphance / miquelet lock Doglock Flintlock Che Dian Chong Pistol Blunderbuss Musketoon...

guns. Flash pans are found on gonnes, matchlocks, wheellocks, snaplocks, snaphances, and flintlocks. The flash pan was at first attached to the gun barrel...

Caplock mechanism Firearms Flintlock Matchlock Miquelet Musket Pepperbox Snaphance Snaplock Terzerol Wheellock Rifled muzzle loader List of muzzle-loading...

Ordnance" chooses five local firearms manufacturers to initially produce 200 "snaphance musquets" per month over the period of one year, paying 17 shillings per...

It" June 18, 2012 (2012-06-18) Items appraised include an odd-looking snaphance rifle from the 16th or 17th century; a collection of about 70 vintage...

time of the English Civil War (1642–1652), one flintlock musket, the snaphance, was in common use in Britain. The term fusiliers was first used officially...

War hammer wheellock (European pick hammer) Doglock Flintlock Matchlock Snaphance Snaplock Snap matchlock Wheellock Kestros, cestrus, cestrosfendoni, kestrosfedoni...

due to wear from striking the frizzen. (See also flintlock mechanism, snaphance, Miquelet lock.) The flintlock was widely used during the 17th, 18th,...

century Double-Barreled Wheellock Pistol Made for Emperor Charles V, 1540 Snaphance flintlock firearm Revolver Diagram of a 1594 Dutch musketry volley formation...

went out of favour around the same time the snaphance flintlock was invented in Europe, in 1550. The snaphance was followed by the "true" flintlock in the...

breakdown, thus limiting it primarily to specialist firearms and pistols. The snaphance flintlock was invented by the mid-16th century and then the "true" flintlock...

lance, the demi-lancer would have been armed with one or two wheellock or snaphance pistols carried in saddle holsters, and a sword (including Walloon swords...

powder instead of a lit match, starting with the wheel lock, snaplock, snaphance, and finally the flintlock mechanism, which was simple and reliable, becoming...

mechanism Firearm Flintlock Hand cannon Matchlock Miquelet Percussion cap Snaphance Wheellock Doglock Heard, Brian J (2013). "Forensic Ballistics in Court"...

1573 Samuel Zimmermann devised an improved method which incorporated a snaphance (or later, flintlock mechanism) into the charge and connected its trigger...

included: Muzzle-loading rifled muskets and smoothbore muskets Flintlock and snaphance guns Matchlock and wheellock guns Spears and rakes (though later during...

steel. The spark produced is directed downward into the flash pan. The snaphance incorporates a mechanism to slide the pan cover forward at the moment...

were equipped with a number of single-shot, muzzle-loader wheel-lock or Snaphance horse pistols, amongst the most advanced weapons of the era. Although...

Caplock mechanism Firearm Flintlock Hand cannon Matchlock Percussion cap Snaphance Snaplock Wheellock (Held 1970:75) (Blackmore 1965:28 and Blair 1983:67)...

included: muzzle-loading rifled muskets and smoothbore muskets Flintlock and Snaphance guns Matchlock and Wheellock guns Spears and rakes (though later during...