Talk:Snaphance

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Are we SURE the illustration is of Snaphaunce-equipped muskets? They really look to me like matchlocks.

RogerInPDXRogerInPDX (talk) 22:19, 10 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Me too. The dogs look as though they are just equipped to hold a match.Nick Michael (talk) 22:48, 10 March 2008 (UTC)


 * They certainly don't look anything like the snaphance lock I own. I've added photos of it, simply because the existing illustration was too small to see anything anyway, regardless of whether it's even correct.  I'll leave it to others to debate whether the small and questionably accurate image should stay. Hatchetfish (talk) 00:48, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

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The German Schnapphahn 'highwayman' is unrelated according to Deutsches Wörterbuch; and the French and Skandinavian terms with related meanings probably borrowed from the German. The German name for the device is Schnappschloss (snap lock). Cheers ⌘  hugarheimur 09:26, 14 August 2020 (UTC)