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KING CHRISTIAN IV OF DENMARK IS KNOWN TO HAVE OWNED A PAIR OF TECHNOLOGICALLY ADVANCED CARLSBAD REVOLVING FLINTLOCK FIREARMS
King Christian I V of Denmark
LOT 3239
Incredibly Scarce and Exceptional Relief Chiseled and Raised Relief Carved Johann Hadisch Weiler of Carlsbad Three-Shot Revolving Flintlock Sporting Gun - NSN, 20 gauge, 38 3/4 inch part octagon bbl., blue/gold/bright finish, walnut stock. Multi-shot flintlock pistols and long guns were the forerunners of the true revolvers of the 19th century
and are very rare and highly desirable antique arms. A small number of firearms built using the system on this long gun in three and four-shot variations were manufactured by a group of gunmakers operating in the spa town of Carlsbad in Bohemia in the first half of the 18th century. Naturally, these advanced firearms were reserved for the nobility, and King Christian IV of Denmark is known to have owned a pair of pistols from Carlsbad using this system. The system used on this gun is similar to the “wender” or “turn-over” design employed on double barrel pistols and long guns in the flintlock era, but instead of having multiple complete
trigger at the front of the trigger guard, these chambers are manually rotated to bring them into alignment with the main barrel and the shared lock which is back action format. The lock is manually cocked each time. This would significantly improve the time between shots compared to a single shot firearm and would also be more durable and less complex to manufacture than many of the other rare multi-shot designs of the era. As with the pistols of this pattern we have seen, the frizzens and long, straight frizzen springs are mounted to separate plates running from the side of each chamber ahead of the pan to the front of circular plate at the junction of
the chambers and barrel. There is also a second rear breech plate and a round plate on the breech end of the barrel. The latter plate and the front plate mounted to the chambers have holes to allow loading from the front. Since you are not required to load down the barrel, the ramrod is shorter as well. This arrangement also keeps the vents out of line with one another which
barrels, the gun has three 4 1/4 inch chambers with pans and frizzens mounted to the sides of each. By giving each chamber its own pan and frizzen, no complicated automatic priming mechanism is required. After pulling on the release
should limit the risk of
chain fires.