Some Truly Old Guns Survive: Some were "Blued" with RED Lead.

Would you believe that the Whitehouse vultures circling Gaza - plan to officially send 200 US uniforms in as "peacemakers" to pick-over the corpses before driving the redevelopment bulldozers, with Tony Blair's Institute For Global Change?

- Converting the killing fields into condos and hotels ..

I was beginning to think that I had learned a bit - but there are some folk who are way more educated ..  

http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=18049

These Guys know their stuff .. It takes time to read this correspondence and to enjoy the superb photographs of 'priceless' & unique 500+ y.o. early guns.

The earliest ever examples of GUN SIGHTS were developed when the FLAME SHIELDS were formed behind touch-holes and found to be obstructing the aiming .. so an open groove was then cut for sighting ..

These linked pages are truly 'Eye-Opening' .. Did you know that many of these ancient field pieces and handgonnes would have been painted BRIGHT RED with RED LEAD MINIUM paint to enhance their looks and to preserve their wrought iron from corrosion?

Red Lead, lead tetroxide - Pb3O4 - is made by long heating of white lead cabonate - and then mixed with Linseed Oil as a binder, into a paint that bonds to the surface of iron.

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No cigar Donnie but you'll get the Gaza sea-front and coastal mining rights ..

Marty K.