The reason why gunpowder would be ground to a finer grade was to provide a charge that was used as a fuse in a muzzle charged firearm so that the flash from the pan could travel through to the main charge in the barrel. The finer powder burned better than the cruder more corse main charge, thus improving the chance of discharging the weapon and avoiding a misfire. Experts would carry the finer powder in a separate flask and the main charge would be carried in a paper or wooden cartridge in a cartridge case or pouch or sometimes attached to an over the shoulder bandolier. The expert marksmen would oftentimes grind their own fine powder, until they were happy with the results but they would use a wooden mortar and pestle or sometimes they would use a brass example to avoid generating spark’s and the mortar simply made it easier to keep the powder together and not spread across the worksurface. The item shown might possibly have been used in the grading of the powder by trapping the grains of a maximum size so that the slightly larger grains could be separated for further processing and the correctly sized grains could be brushed off into the flask, but I think that would be introducing a further complication to an already tiresome subject.
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Very interesting. It was so nice to come to your little museum today, we learnt a lot ❤️❤️
Wow love the video I would of never known these items existed thanks for sharing keep the cameras rolling from Florida
Wonderful.👍
The reason why gunpowder would be ground to a finer grade was to provide a charge that was used as a fuse in a muzzle charged firearm so that the flash from the pan could travel through to the main charge in the barrel. The finer powder burned better than the cruder more corse main charge, thus improving the chance of discharging the weapon and avoiding a misfire. Experts would carry the finer powder in a separate flask and the main charge would be carried in a paper or wooden cartridge in a cartridge case or pouch or sometimes attached to an over the shoulder bandolier. The expert marksmen would oftentimes grind their own fine powder, until they were happy with the results but they would use a wooden mortar and pestle or sometimes they would use a brass example to avoid generating spark’s and the mortar simply made it easier to keep the powder together and not spread across the worksurface. The item shown might possibly have been used in the grading of the powder by trapping the grains of a maximum size so that the slightly larger grains could be separated for further processing and the correctly sized grains could be brushed off into the flask, but I think that would be introducing a further complication to an already tiresome subject.
Another video! 😁👏
Some of those tongs are for hair curling...