I Found More Mongolian Snap Lock Muskets But they Are Not from Museum or Auction House

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Intro

6 months ago we talked about a traditional and old snap lock gun in Asia. Why in the intro part I want to mention this point? Because the guns in today’s topic are very close to it in relationships and we will be using many of the knowledge points we mentioned before. 

Compared with the other guns that we talked about before, another special part is how I found the old guns. They are not the collections on the web pages of museums and auction houses but they are from an old goods online group.

This Online Group

First of all, let’s talk about what is this online group? Actually it’s not mysterious at all. It’s just a common group on Facebook and its group name is very clear as well, BUY, SELL, EXCHANGE ANTIQUES. At the same time since this is a public group, now there are more than 16,000 members. Although today we talk about the antique firearms in this group, we should know that this is indeed a very common Facebook group for antiques exchanging. Plus, as we know, the word “firearm" is a very sensitive tag in Facebook, especially “firearm exchanging”. 

So when we skim the posts of this group, we can find that most of the goods are crafts or other antique collections. Therefore old firearms and old swords are not the main trading goods. When I first found this group, the key word antiques touched me. I suddenly realized if I could find the muskets? As we talked about in my old video/article, Mongolia indeed has some traditional muskets that have a very typical look. Additionally, since according to many countries' situations, the gun control policy for the traditional old type muzzleloaders is more friendly and open than the policy for the modern firearms. So at that moment I thought it’s possible that the traditional and old Mongolian muzzleloaders might appear in this group. Finally very fortunately and very surprisedly I indeed found the traditional muzzleloaders in the group. So now let’s move to the next part and let’s talk about some details that I found from the posts. 

The Locks

The colour of the gun stocks are very different as we can see and the length of the 3 barrels is not the same but the locks are very similar. I believe you also find the question, are these locks similar to the locks that we talked about before? Yes, that’s right. That’s also the reason why I think it’s worth making today’s video/article. We can find more and more clues from many different platforms and they can gradually be put together and finish this puzzle. 

Basically they are snap locks and the triggers are almost the same as well. But the trigger of the gun with green stock maybe is another different trigger or maybe the trigger is broken. Honestly I don’t figure it out very clearly. Maybe it’s a clockwork key crank-like trigger fixed on the stock. 

Then, the locks have different frizzens. One of them has an “original” snap lock’s frizzen’s shape but the rest of 2 frizzens are like the flintlock’s frizzen. But the mechanism has almost not changed. 

Overall, not only the locks in my old video/article but also the locks in today’s video/article. The locks are very consistent. Based on this point, we can infer that they should be in the same firearm family and were used very popular in Mongolia.  

The Gun Stock-look

Then when we zoom-out, we can see the whole of the gun stock. The 3 guns are consistent as well and meanwhile they have the same Tibetan musket style with the other Mongolian snap lock muskets that were mentioned before and plus the very iconic bipod we can more surely recognize its identity. 

Besides them, actually I notice other very rare information. This is the price. This information is hidden in one of the comments. Fortunately there’s a friend, who was curious about the price and he got the answer, 2.5 million tögrög. It’s about 720 US dollars. So based on its traditional elements and very iconic style, do you think this is a good price or a not good deal. 

The Small Gears and outro

In the end part, let's talk about the small gears for the musket. The gears are almost the same as the gears that we mentioned in the earlier video/article. So probably this kind of gear was indeed very popular for the Mongolian snap lock musket users. 

So this is today’s video/article and thank you for watching. Hope you can like this video/article. Have a good day. See you next time. Bye!

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