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RAMROD THIMBLE [1 record]

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Record 1 2018-11-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Antique and Obsolete Weapons
DEF

A pipe or short tube for holding [a] ramrod.

CONT

The alteration consisted of removing the front sight and replacing it with a bayonet lug, shortening the forestock and adding a brass upper band and retaining spring, removing the upper and middle ramrod thimbles ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Armes anciennes
DEF

Petite douille [...] qui s'attache au nombre de trois avec des goupilles le long de la rainure qui est en dessous du bois du fusil pour y passer la baguette et empêcher qu'elle ne se perde.

CONT

Le spécimen le plus complet, dont la crosse est disparue, est un fusil à fût solide qui possède trois porte-baguette en laiton, le contour d'une grenadière en fer, une bande de laiton laminé, les restes d'une baguette de fusil en fer et une sous-garde en cuivre jaune, toujours intacte.

Spanish

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