Breech Collection

Killer / Orca Whale - breaching. ML522
TOM-1166 Killer / Orca Whale - breaching Puget Sound, San Juan Islands, Washington, British Columbia, Pacific ocean Orcinus orca Tom & Pat Leeson Please note that prints are for personal display

Killer Whale - breaching Pacific Northwest ml96p
TOM-888 Killer Whale / Orca - breaching San Juan Islands, Puget Sound, Washington. USA Orcinus orca Tom & Pat Leeson Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

Colt Guns and Rifles - breech-loading arms. circa late 19th century

The Martini-Henry Rifle (engraving)
1625821 The Martini-Henry Rifle (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Martini-Henry Rifle. Illustration for The Illustrated London News, 22 July 1871)

Smoking shotgun
Smoking gun. Smoking chambers of a double- barrelled shotgun

Big Gun
circa 1885: The breech block of a large gun being gauged and fitted at Woolwich Arsenal. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

French Artillery - 9
An artilleryman of the foot artillery of the French Garde Royale passes a shell to his mate to load their breech- loading Gribeauval cannon

Small arms in the International Exhibition, 1862. Creator: Unknown
Small arms in the International Exhibition, 1862. 1. Sword presented by the Romans to the King of Italy; made by Castallani of Rome; 2. Sword-hilt by Wilkinson, Pall-mall; 3

Mr. Clay's new breech-loading gun, 1862. Creator: Unknown
Mr. Clay's new breech-loading gun, 1862. Mr. William Clay, of the Mersey Steel and Iron Works, Liverpool, has just invented a beautiful breechloading gun made by a rolling process patented by

Biei blue pond, Biei, Hokkaido, Japan

A breech loading Harquebus, with moveable chamber, dating from 1537, from The British Army: Its Origins
619343 A breech loading Harquebus, with moveable chamber, dating from 1537, from The British Army: Its Origins, Progress and Equipment, published 1868

Forest between fall and winter with rusty leaves and a leading path
Vio Oprea

The Naval Mobilisation, Big Gun and Torpedo Practice on Board H Ms "Hero"and "Rodney"(engraving)
1041826 The Naval Mobilisation, Big Gun and Torpedo Practice on Board H Ms " Hero" and " Rodney" (engraving) by Nash

Chinese Visitors to a British War Ship (engraving)
1100136 Chinese Visitors to a British War Ship (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Chinese Visitors to a British War Ship)

Breechloader rifle, in use around 1700. Ammunition is loaded via the rear end of the barrel. Date: circa 1700

Small Arms in the International Exhibition (engraving)
1587935 Small Arms in the International Exhibition (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Small Arms in the International Exhibition)

The "Sport and Art"Exhibition at the Grosvenor Gallery (engraving)
1626746 The " Sport and Art" Exhibition at the Grosvenor Gallery (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Royal Naval Exhibition, Ancient and Modern Guns, Crank-Shaft and Boiler-Shell (engraving)
1591775 Royal Naval Exhibition, Ancient and Modern Guns, Crank-Shaft and Boiler-Shell (engraving) by Watkins, Frank (fl.1859-94); Private Collection; (add.info.: Royal Naval Exhibition)

The Advance to Peking, Scenes at Taku and Tientsin (litho)
1600091 The Advance to Peking, Scenes at Taku and Tientsin (litho) by Holland Tringham, Joseph (1861-1908); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Advance to Peking, Scenes at Taku and Tientsin)

Breech-loading railway gun in action, France, WW1
A breech-loading 9.2" railway gun in action, France, First World War. circa 1916

The Prussian Needle-Gun and the Snider-Enfield Rifle (engraving)
1103429 The Prussian Needle-Gun and the Snider-Enfield Rifle (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Prussian Needle-Gun and the Snider-Enfield Rifle)

Section of Breech of Martini-Henry Rifle (engraving)
2799967 Section of Breech of Martini-Henry Rifle (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Section of Breech of Martini-Henry Rifle)

Artillery in the Paris International Exhibition (engraving)
1620535 Artillery in the Paris International Exhibition (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Artillery in the Paris International Exhibition)

Hackbut, c. 1500 (bronze)
CH440598 Hackbut, c.1500 (bronze) by German School, (16th century); length: 78.1 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: formed in offset octagonal stages, the rearward facets bevelled at the median)

Turkish Artillery Experiments with Dynamite Shells at the Dardanelles (engraving)
1595032 Turkish Artillery Experiments with Dynamite Shells at the Dardanelles (engraving) by Woodville, Richard Caton II (1856-1927) (after); Private Collection; (add.info)

Ladies Visit to an Ironclad (engraving)
1046492 Ladies Visit to an Ironclad (engraving) by Marie, Adrien Emmanuel (1848-91) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Ladies Visit to an Ironclad)

Stopping a Cannon-Ball in its Flight (engraving)
3627994 Stopping a Cannon-Ball in its Flight (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Stopping a Cannon-Ball in its Flight)

The Whitworth Gun (engraving)
2773082 The Whitworth Gun (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Whitworth Gun)

Ordnance (engraving)
5207101 Ordnance (engraving) by American School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Ordnance. Illustration for Farrows Military Encyclopedia by Edwards Farrow (Published by the Author)

Small-Arms (engraving)
5207118 Small-Arms (engraving) by American School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Small-Arms. Illustration for Farrows Military Encyclopedia by Edwards Farrow)

Chassepot Breech-Loader - Longitudinal Section of Cartridge, c1872. Creator: Unknown
Chassepot Breech-Loader - Longitudinal Section of Cartridge, c1872. Diagram of a cartridge for the Chassepot bolt action military breechloading rifle, officially known as Fusil modele 1866

Prussian Needle-Gun (Breech Open), c1872. Creator: Unknown
Prussian Needle-Gun (Breech Open), c1872. From " The Franco-Prussian War: its causes, incidents and consequences", Volume I, by Captain H M Hozier. [William Mackenzie, London, 1872]

Chassepot Breech-Loader - Longitudinal Vertical Section, c1872. Creator: Unknown
Chassepot Breech-Loader - Longitudinal Vertical Section, c1872. Diagram of the Chassepot bolt action military breechloading rifle, officially known as Fusil modele 1866

Chassepot Breech-Loader - Elevation, c1872. Creator: Unknown
Chassepot Breech-Loader - Elevation, c1872. Illustration of the Chassepot bolt action military breechloading rifle, officially known as Fusil modele 1866

Section of the Prussian Needle Gun, c1872. Creator: Unknown
Section of the Prussian Needle Gun, c1872. Diagram showing cartridge chamber, needle bolt, slide block, knob, spiral spring, thumbpiece and handle of locking spring

Sub Machine Gun, Thompson, . 45 In M1928A1
Thompson M1928A1. 45 in sub machine gun, 1940 (c); manufactured by the Auto-Ordnance Corporation, USA; breech stamped with British War Department ownership

Breaching Humpback Whale, Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico

Small Arms. Firearms. 19th Century Military Breech Action. 1. Martini-Henry 2. Lee-Metford British Magazine Rifle 3. Gras 4. Mauser 5. Mannlicher. From The National Encyclopaedia, Published C.1890

Illustration Of A Chamber Being Placed In The Breech Of A Cannon, From A 15Th Century Manuscript. From The British Army: Its Origins, Progress And Equipment, Published 1868

Small Breech Loading Pivot Gun Of Hooped Iron. From The British Army: Its Origins, Progress And Equipment, Published 1868

A Breech Loading Harquebus, With Moveable Chamber, Dating From 1537. From The British Army: Its Origins, Progress And Equipment, Published 1868

Advertisement, C G Bonehill, Birmingham
Advertisement, C G Bonehill, Belmont Row, Birmingham, Guns and Rifles. 1890s

Krupp gun at Fort Chemenik, Gallipoli, Turkey
One of the Krupp guns at Fort Chemenik, Gallipoli, Turkey, with the breech block removed. The two men are officers of the 2nd Kings Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster). Date: circa 1920s

Pierriers / Pattereras
PIERRIERS, vulgarly called PATTERERAS a variety of light open-breech cannon on swivel mountings Date: 1788

HENRY III of France (1551-1589). King of France (1574-1589). Elected King of Poland (1573), left this country to succeed Charles IX. Engraving by Ch. Gilbert

Ladies Visit to an Ironclad, 1889: their Arrival, the Gunnery Lieutenant Shows that the Mechanism of a Breech-Loading Gun is so Perfect that a Child could Open the Breech

Colt revolver. Fig. 2 shows the breech disc, Fig. 3, the cartridge in section. From The Mechanics Magazine, London, 1869

Master gunner firing a cannon by applying fire to the breech. Woodcut from Tavels by Edward Webbe (London, 1590)

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