A BRIEF Intro to the " All Steel Highland Scots Pistol"

[macneighill]

Cost, don't ask

One can only imagine :mrgreen:. I collect antique firearms so, I can fathom how expensive it might be.

[Woodsheal]

Here are some earlier (1600's) types, with snaphaunce locks, mixing brass and steel, and with differing butt styles:







Notice that a 'brace' of Scottish pistols has the locks on opposite sides of the guns: left side for the left hand pistol, and vice versa.

Here's an early (1670) all-steel flintlock 'dag.' A lateral sear catches the back of the hammer on this one:



These images are from Culloden: The Swords and the Sorrows, the Nat'l Trust for Scotland, 1996.

[puffer]

Here are some earlier (1600's) types, with snaphaunce locks, mixing brass and steel, and with differing butt styles:







Notice that a 'brace' of Scottish pistols has the locks on opposite sides of the guns: left side for the left hand pistol, and vice versa.

Here's an early (1670) all-steel flintlock 'dag.' A lateral sear catches the back of the hammer on this one:



These images are from Culloden: The Swords and the Sorrows, the Nat'l Trust for Scotland, 1996.

GREAT examples.

As to "a BRACE' of pistols, I would like to add an observation.
1. I used the term "brace" to refer to a PAIR",( common def. ????)
most commonly a "Matched Pair" Several of my ref.s seem to use the terms interchangably.
Please advise of your thoughts.
2. If my usage of "brace" can be accepted, then "Notice that a 'brace' of Scottish pistols has the locks on opposite sides of the guns: left side for the left hand pistol, and vice versa." should be ( RESPECTIVELY IMHO) be prefaced with OFTEN.
Kelvin, etal, gives several examples of "matched pairs ( Brace" ???) being made in both "the same hand" In fact this seems (IMHO) to be more normal.

See "the Scottish Pistol ..." by Kelvin

Also see my next post (carry pics.)

PLEASE CONTINUE with your GREAT insights. You have contributed much to my knowledge. LEARNING & SHARING is WHERE IT IS AT (IMHO)

Puffer

[BoldHighlander]

Great thread Puffer
I've always been a big fan of the HSP!

A question for you & Woodsheal (as fellow reenactors), have either of you ever run across repro 1600's HSP?

I'm working on a Thirty Years War impression (Mackay Regt, of course ) & the only pistols I've run across for that period are wood framed (I'll use them, but....)

Thanks.

[Woodsheal]

Great thread Puffer
I've always been a big fan of the HSP!

A question for you & Woodsheal (as fellow reenactors), have either of you ever run across repro 1600's HSP?

Some clever builder could produce one using this lock. Donnie Shearer, the "Mad Piper" for example (but he ain't taking orders currently). In any case, I'd figure around $800 to a grand for such a totally custom pistol....

[puffer]

Great thread Puffer
I've always been a big fan of the HSP!

A question for you & Woodsheal (as fellow reenactors), have either of you ever run across repro 1600's HSP?

I'm working on a Thirty Years War impression (Mackay Regt, of course ) & the only pistols I've run across for that period are wood framed (I'll use them, but....)

Thanks.

I have not. but I WOULD LOVE TO !! I have seen a couple of GOOD ones of the 1700s style. ( BTW a plain one made from a TRS kit would run you near $1,000 But when you you add the ENGRAVING $$$$$$$ I have a great gun maker who will make me one, but the cost of the engraving is beyond me @ this time.

Puffer