I was talking about the guns I saw in the warehouse Friday and I only compare them with themselves not some others on the internet.
Ther has been a good deal of misrepresentation about what is or is not in the Nepalese cache... some of of comes from scholarly differences in interpretation. Some comes from good faith mis-identifications, which jealous competitors jump on.
There is a lot of intrigue involved in this collection. A study of the history of the era and area will show that the Nepalese were getting state of the art (for the time period) armaments shortly after they were introduced in Europe. They then modified or directly produced these same arms. What the Nepalese didn't get was state of the art machinery to produce these arms. These the state of the art arms was duplicatedone with hand tools and old basic machinery. The intriguing part is why such sophisticated arms were going to Nepal? A very interesting time in history.
The Nepalese cache is a mix of hand made Nepalese weapons and "modern" (for the age) European weapons, mostly British. Some others including at least one one verified and documented Confederate piece.
Some mystery's of time are being solved-perhaps solved is a bit to strong a word. Perhaps suggestions to answer to questions are being found. For example there has always been a question about what happened to all the British Pattern 42 guns made to replace the pattern 34 rifles destroy in a fire in the Tower of London. I found a clue to that, when in 2011 I found a Nepalese Snider made with British parts including a P-42 lock dated Tower 1847. This rifle came from a pallet of these guns that all appeared to have British and Nepalese parts. There was a number of pallets nearby with similar guns.
At the end of the month I will be going to the IMA-British Miltaria shoot in Easton, PA. During the shoot we will tour the warehouses. The One warehouse has most of the artillery most if it relatively unseen. That is where mose otf the good stuff is supposed ot be stored. I will try to get back to the back and take some pictures.
Here is another they had in the back room Friday.
I wasn't going to post this picture because of it's poor quality. But since I need to help in some research on the carriage color I am posting away...does anyone know what color Dutch East India Company used on their ship guns?
Starting Wednesday on the Nat Geo channel a TV show about IMA called Family guns. They will have cannons...
