Capt. Flint Posted December 28, 2003 Posted December 28, 2003 Ahoy me fellow seadogs..... I saw this gun kit in Dixie gun catalog. It is a large skeleton or jailers key, that is also a matchlock gun. It is very inexpensive and I think it would make a great converstaion piece. What I want to know, purley out of curiosity, is ..... is there any truth to the history of such a weapon. Dixie was unable to answer the question. So I thought I would ask me mates here. I'm not worried about it being authentic or acurate or even functional. ( although the catalog does list it as a fireable weapon ) I just am curious to know if this type of piece ever did exist or is it just fantasy...... Thanks shipmates.... The Capt.
Capt. Westyn Elizabeth Roberts Posted December 28, 2003 Posted December 28, 2003 'Ello, Capt. Flinty! How's life? Well, I don't know the answer to your question, but I thought I'd add that I saw a neat little weapon belonging to Oliver Platt's character Porthos in the Disney version of The Three Musketeers (with Charlie Sheen and Kiefer Sutherland and Tim Curry). It was a gun that he fired, and then he whipped out the end of it (which was a knife) and stabbed somebody! I thought that was cool, but didn't think it quite period. I did some research, and it really is. Humph! Learn something new every day by watching movies... Capt. WE Roberts "I shall uphold my indignity with the utmost dignity befitting a person of my undignified station."
capnwilliam Posted December 28, 2003 Posted December 28, 2003 Capt. Flint, I don't know fer sure if such a piece ever existed; but I can say that guns have been teamed with shields, walking sticks, pens...it sure wouldn't surprise me to find a key gun! There's a book called "FIREARMS CURIOSA" that might answer your question, if you can locate a copy, or someone who has one. Capt. William "The fight's not over while there's a shot in the locker!"
Misery Posted December 30, 2003 Posted December 30, 2003 i thought a link to the gun in question might help http://www.dixiegunworks.com/product_info....products_id=934
hitman Posted January 3, 2004 Posted January 3, 2004 Key guns were very rare but they did indeed exist ( if the history channels tales of the gun is to be belived) THIS BE THE HITMAN WE GOIN QUIET
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