The Early Locks Page

One thing I have discovered is how little many people know of the early lock types. Here I will try to help show the different types of locks that existed before the Percussion Lock era.

Please click on the link see the lock types you are interested in seeing.

This page was last updated on January 20, 2003.


The Handgonne


The Matchlock


The Wheellock


The Snaphaunce


The Baltic Snaplock


The Miquelet Lock


The English Lock


The Doglock



The Flintlock


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The lock pictures are from The Age of Firearms by Robert Held and Arms and Armor in Colonial America by Harold L. Peterson