Interesting Rubbish:

A thought to consider and appreciate ..

"Mountain Fighters" such as The Legendary GHURKAS and Yemens Ansar Allah are truly superior performing under physical stress.

We are not talking about a small advantage here over a squishy oldy like me .. What we have here is a 20%-30% plus increase in Lung Capacity, - Blood Oxygen Transport, - Stamina, Strength and Agility - that results from them growing up at High Altitude ..

The Gurkha recruitment test — the Doko race — requires sprinting 5.5 kilometres uphill while carrying 25 kg of sand/rocks strapped to the head.

Similar status applies to Afghan's Mujahideens, Kurdish Peshmerga, - Chechins and Dagestanis, Tibet's Chushi Gangdruk guerillas and Nepals Sherpas.

- Lean, mean, turbocharged fighting machines ..

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Excuse me for lowering the tone, Yeah - more crap, but not for me .. Spirited bidding rose above my limit and went well into real dollars for this crude old, Blank-Firing "starting pistol" .. Revolver de Poche (Pocket Revolver).

I backed-away and withdrew from this race when online bidding rose above FOUR TIMES my estimated value ..

Google AI pretends to help identify .. "I will stop trying to generate fake matches or guess the manufacturer out of thin air. You have an unbranded, early 20th-century European .22 rimfire folding-trigger blank gun, and a digitized commercial catalog image of it simply isn't in my system. I apologize for wasting your time with automated rubbish"

That is after around half an hour of repeated requests for manufacture data - If you don't ask you don't get ..

I 'sus this piece as having been built in Belgium from the same standard 'crucible steel' parts as a 'Real One' but missing any care or fitting, finishing or polishing ..

 

I know it's RUBBISH .. But it's interesting antique rubbish

- with the number '37' on the FOLDING TRIGGER.

As listed on NZ trademe - Have I spotted a PAT number on the lower frame?

DIFFERENT Gun .. THIS image is of a real, Proofed Belgian bullet firing one

 - but is also an anonymous made, 'Bulldog'-Velo-Dog? Revolver:

Under current NZ firearms laws - the real velo-dog gun is basically BANNED because 'The Authority' does not allow any such short barrelled pistols to be owned or shot by licenced and endorsed 'fit-and-proper persons' - it's barrel is too short at around two inches. - I "want to be very CLEAR about this" - you may own and shoot somebody with your revolver only as long as it's barrel is above FOUR INCHES"

Tramp: “Excuse me; have you seen a policeman?”

Cyclist: “No.”

Tramp: “Then I’ll have to call on you to give up your watch and money.”

Around the early 1900s - Frenchman Renee Galand made his 'Velo-Dog' anti-nuisance-dogs revolvers called Revolver de Poche for cyclists to repel boarders.

These pieces shown here naturally are cheap and nasty copies & replicas.

Interestingly - a further two days later I spotted another BLANK FIRING revolver on trademe from the same vendor ..

Read all about armed cyclists here: https://cyclehistory.wordpress.com/2015/10/03/guns-wheels-and-steel-cyclists-and-small-arms-in-the-late-19th-century/

IN THE INTEREST OF PUBLIC SAFETY - WE MUST INSIST THAT ALL NZ POLICE EMPLOYEES QUALIFY FOR, & OBTAIN, AND MAINTAIN THE SAME STANDARD NZ FIREARMS LICENCE in exactly the same way that we citizens are required to.

Why should anyone be exempt?

Are YOU having fun?

Marty K.

EGG on My Face .. Durr!

I think know that I am "addicted" to antique pistols ..

It's the other side that explains ..

- Can't Read it .. we need the Close-Up

D  EGG   LONDON (1748-1832).. (before clean-up)

Broken-absent 'NIPPLE GUARD'.

- This shot above is during my cleaning but before waxing..

As delivered .. the Walnut stocks were covered in a grunge of grease clogging the checkering and darkening the colour - while areas of the metal were peppered with warts of black coke over pustules of live RUST .. experts know this as patina. Rubbing down with '0000' steel wool wetted with alcohol and a soft stylus lifted the surface dirt of ages to reveal beauty (and pitting) underneath .. Before I go to the Death Chamber I need to confess that the 'WAX' treatment I use is a greasy rag from an old pot of local 'PROTECT NATURALLY' beeswax-lanolin leather treatment that I've had for ever.

- CLEANING - PRESERVATION - REPAIRING - REPLACING 

- RESTORATION?- ENHANCING? - RENEWING? - REFINISHING?

- They say that opinions are like assholes .. Everyone has got one .. but I insist on first de-rusting and cleaning away the snot-of-ages from old stuff while assessing it's condition.

Most of the antiques I can afford are battered from long use & misuse .. meaning that over centuries they did their jobs .. If you find a 170 or 270 year old tool that is undinged and unused - such as this 'MARIETTE' pistol ..

I'd guess that it is a tool unsuited for use ..

- The rarest multi-million dollar classic Ferrari car is rare for a reason - Back in the day Enzo only made a couple - because it was overpriced crap.

The EGG name and fine decorative engraving lifts the value of this new piece .. and it's in fair condition too. - During 'The Regency Period' 1811-1820 - Swiss born Durs Egg was famous in London Society for fine craftsmanship that resulted in his guns being "by Royal Appointment".

This "turnover" percussion pocket Pistol - to me clearly was sourced from the Birmingham Gun Quarter by this leading London Gun Dealer for finishing & engraving in central London - and the quality 'feel' with lovely 3D engraving is satisfying.

Monoblock 48-bore (.430 inch, 11 mm), Boxlock - Side Hammer two barrel turnover, with dropdown trigger .. Main faults are the broken-missing NIPPLE GUARD - and while functional, the spring loaded 'detant' meant to position the revolving barrels is notchy and uncertain - needing servicing.

Above another very similar 'Turnover' from RIGBY, Dublin (image from Auction Site)

Just like the other one .. This variant from D Mortimer (from an Auction Site)

I'm seriously theorising that - like many 'Swiss Watches' with base components made in China, - all three examples were likely supplied to specialist gunmakers from Birmingham's Gun Quarter in the white. - How could we firm-up this idea? - And where there's three - there'd have to be MORE.

WARNING: I waste hours repeatedly correcting Google AI on multiple false statements during this researching ..Do NOT rely on AI for any factual data without crosschecking .. After extended questioning Google AI admitted .." When a query requires deep, specialized archival research, my system relies on its internal training data—and when that data is missing, the predictive text engine fills the gaps with hallucinations that sound authoritative but are structurally hollow."

Google AI is a Story Teller and specifically programmed to bullshit, flatter, and lie in a sycophantic but authorative manner when it lacks factual data .. It makes it up when it doesn' know.

If Government POLICIES are based on research gleaned from 'AI' .. I am unsurprised that MP's repeatedly impose ineffective, dangerously stupid regulation.

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Here's an Interesing historical LINK: https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/threads/gun-trade-factories.37087/page-3

There is a fine video about BSA - BIRMINGHAM SMALL ARMS @ bottom of Page 5 ..

Or Linked here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmDe1EmE_NM&t=331s

Life is GOOD .. as long as there are new toys to arrive,

FIREARMS LICENCES ESSENTIAL FOR NZ POLICE.

Why should anyone be exempt?

Marty K.

 

Err What?

 Would you like to discuss whether DARK MATTER consists of Black Holes, Axions, Dark Photons, - or WIMPS (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles)? - I'm KIDDING, I'm KIDDING.

So .. I've been at it again .. It's Mine, my Precious. - Inlaid pistols are pretty things .. Eye candy I guess, - but some are made-up as 'Wallhanger' decorations, just pushed together from random components with bits of faux bone, ivory or nacre glued on the surfaces. We need to be wary.

The vendor said he thought it might be Arabic, and I didn't have a clue .. But I did think it does not seem to be a flashy tourist shop special .. as it has a captive swivelling ramrod, a wedge holding the stock, a hinged Butt Cap Trap, plus a lot of ornate bone inlays, - and is that English style engraving on a Back-Action Lock behind a twist-Damascus barrel? - As received, the hammer nearly held on fullcock, but I thought I saw GOLD wire bands ..

GOLD WIRE BANDS and solid gold? FRONT SIGHT fixed on a Fine Twist Damascus Barrel .. Engraved Screwheads? - I likee. (I even poked the Endoscope up it's hole & it's fine)

TRIGGER GUARD: This thing was not just "knocked together" ..

I removed the lock and scrubbed it in kerosene and found that the rear Bridle screw was loose .. After tightening and reassembly it all works well.

English Back-Action Lock Mechanism.

I pushed Google AI for identification and it's first guess was ''Ottoman" - then Afghan Pashtun (Khyber Pass) - Afridi Jezail style, but after I posted more detail images it cancelled all that - and was unshakeably certain that this is a "classic" SINDI Holster Pistol from The Sindh Region of southern Pakistan - dating from 1860.

AI maintains "Beyond doubt" - this pistol is built to a high standard in SINDH, using an English Back Action Percussion Lock with a .550 inch 28 Bore Damascus Twist Barrel with cavalry style Swivel Ram-Rod, dated to 1860-65 ... Small inlaid Camel Bone Dice or 'Circle-Dot' square plaques. - I counted 87 individual handcut camel bone inlays. ( I have interrogated AI about this assessment from multiple angles.)

The 1860-65 date follows the 1857 UPRISING, and the East India Company replacement by The British RAJ, The Indian Arms Act of 1860 - when prohibited from making military style weapons by this administration .. craftsmen refocused onto decorative personal defense arms.

Moi? - I am not 100% but there you go .. English Birmingham LOCKWORK & Gold embellished Barrel, - the heavy Damascus Twist barrel may well have been bought-in from LIEGE Belgium cannoneurs for boring in Birmingham .. then shipped to the Indian Continent where a STOCK was skillfully carved and decorated by a local, but I like it anyway.

What will I buy next?

Life is Good

FIREARMS LICENCES ESSENTIAL FOR NZ POLICE.

Why should anyone be exempt?

Marty K.

Bristol - COPPER - Slaves & Jaffa Cakes:

- It's a harmless hobby ..

Only 21mm Diameter ..

More junk - yeah I'm nuts .. Nuts about old Copperware sheet metalwork - I just love the stuff .. But I'm not sure why I wasted my dollars on this wee TOKEN that's 374 years old?

Finding a 1652 dated Bristoll Farthing in New Zealand for NZ$24 was a great buy, as these historic 17th-century trade tokens generally can go up to NZ$150+ (£20 to £75+), depending heavily on condition .. this one is VERY FINE (VF) condition.

Yes I know it is spelled BRISTOL - now it's gone to 'ell - but stuff changes over time eh. Try CAER ODOR, Brycgstow, BRYGSTOW, BRISTOW, then BRISTOLL .. and currently BRISTOL.

1652 follows the execution of King Charles I in 1649, - and England was governed as a Republic for 11 years under Oliver Cromwell and Parliament. The central government focused strictly on minting high-value gold and silver coins, halting the production of official base-metal small change like farthings and halfpennies. Without any lower-value coins, shopkeepers couldn't give change for ordinary purchases like bread, ale, or soap.. 

So, Bristol issued these official city tokens backed by the local corporation to standardise small change across the region. These Bristol corporate tokens were highly trusted because of the city's vast commercial wealth as a major maritime port. Tokens remained a vital backbone of local West Country commerce until 1672, when King Charles II finally outlawed private tokens and re-established an official royal copper coinage.

The local copper and brass industry that Bristol built to solve its small change crisis in 1652 became a driver of the Transatlantic Slave Trade - just a few decades later, Bristol industries quickly progressed from striking local coins to mass-producing heavy copper household goods explicitly designed to buy human slaves.

Cornish COPPER was foundered into Guinea Kettles, Cooking Pots, Copper Bracelets called Manillas, all used for trade, - and CAULDRONS used for boiling and refining Sugar Cane.

Manilas or Okpoho - made from copper, brass, & bronze were cash in Africa ..

A Highly Profitable CORPORATE Trade Lasting Over 300 Years:

- A 'Triangular Trade Route' of exchange goods to Africa used to buy slaves .. Slaves and copper goods to the Americas and Caribbean .. Sugar, Tobacco and Cotton from America back to Bristol. THE MONEY MADE THEN KEEPS PROPERTIED FAMILIES WEALTHY TO THIS DAY.

GUN LAWS .. Firearms Regulations, in British based nations like Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and UK itself - are wholy based on the wealthy ruling elites FEAR of the POOR. 

IF you pause to THINK about Corporate 'BIG BUSINESS' and what these organizations are about .. It's fairly obvious they DON'T exist to benefit the workers. These 'Corporates' live to make their owners WEALTHY and more wealthy and ever more wealthy .. etc into the future, for-ever extracting money from us the resource. 

Corporate business's live to take your money and to put it into their accounts. Full Stop.

- They don't care how they do it or what damage they cause on the way .. Pollution? - So What .. Poisoned kids .. Oh Dear never mind eh. Destroyed marshlands and locals pushed out by "security forces" - Thats "progress". These leaders have more wealth and Power than countries now. Democracy?

FIREARMS LICENCES ESSENTIAL FOR NZ POLICE.

Why should anyone be exempt?

Jaffa Cakes and Empty Space:

This is a brand-new - just opened packet of Jaffa Cakes from Woolworths Supermarket ..

There are just 10 in here @ 49cents each - still sealed in clear plastic .. THERE IS ROOM IN THERE FOR AT LEAST THREE MORE as suggested by the packaging size. This is cheating the consumers and should be addressed by Government Authorities, who are paid by our taxes to work in the best interests of THE PEOPLE .. not of the bloody rip-off merchants.

What is the difference between a biscuit maker and a thief? 

- NOTHING, They both steal your money at every chance ..

Life is Good,

Marty K.