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ID Help...Flintlock Striker?

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Ross in SAV

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I posted this on the "Whatzit" forum, but I've gotten no reply, and you fine folks here at Friends and Finds always have insightful things to say. So here it is...not a metal detecting find, but an eye-balled surface find. The two holes appear to be threaded and it's about 3 inch across and 2 inched north to south. I find this only a week before moving from this 200+ acre homestead I live on. My detectors are already moved to storage and I have no way to detect the area in which I found this. It's the pits.

Any info would be appreciated.

Thank you kindly.

Ross

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[size=large]And I don't think what you found is a flintlock striker (hammer). I'm enclosing a photograph of a flintlock pistol I have hanging on my wall (what an ironic coincidence, huh). The hammer is nothing more than a mechanism for holding the flint and striking the frizzen once the trigger is pulled. The size you stated on your piece of 3" would be a little big. Even if it was a percussion hammer it would still be too big.

Not sure what it is, we've all found those that go in the whatzit box. But I'm pretty sure its not a flintlock hammer.

Vernon[/size]



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Typical flintlock hammer
 
I'm not familiar with the integral parts of old guns and the proper naming, and when I said "striker" I was referring to the piece the hammer and flint strike down upon. What the flint tip is touching in the first picture you posted. Do you think that is a possibility?

Thanks,

Ross
 
[size=large]Although the piece you found is interesting, and I'm sure it belongs to something cool, even though there is a similarity I don't think it is a flintlock frizzen. Basically, a frizzen is a 90 degree angle which consists of the striking area of the frizzen and at the bottom you have the flash pan cover, and is attached to the rifle on a swinging hinge (the frizzen has an attachment hole). The flint in the hammer strikes the frizzen, creating sparks as it slides down at the same time knocking the frizzen back and out of the way, so that the sparks can enter the flashpan and ignite the powder on the outside of the barrel. The piece you have has 2 places for screws, which would not be needed on a frizzen, and the angles are not correct. So I would have to say that it is not, in my humble opinion.
Vernon[/size]

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I posted this on another forum, and "striker" kept coming up and I got a little excited. I knew the great folks at F&F Forum would be able to set things straight. Though the homestead I found this on is 168+ years old, this is more likely modern junk. Hey, can't blame me for dreaming!
 
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