Forum: European Armoury
22nd December 2014, 04:46 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
22nd December 2014, 04:22 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
22nd December 2014, 03:31 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
22nd December 2014, 03:26 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
22nd December 2014, 12:56 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
22nd December 2014, 12:05 PM
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Hi Ister,
Welcome to the forum. ...
Hi Ister,
Welcome to the forum.
For a contemporary short Landsknecht snap tinderlock arquebus, ca. 1525-30, the stock also painted green, please see my thread:
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Forum: European Armoury
22nd December 2014, 08:10 AM
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No, Nando, my dear friend,
I'm afraid we...
No, Nando, my dear friend,
I'm afraid we can't!:D:p
No, seriously: many people I know are shocked by that horrible "logo" of official identification of our forum; it does not add in the least...
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Forum: European Armoury
22nd December 2014, 07:35 AM
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No Marcus,
The gun I fired on...
No Marcus,
The gun I fired on that photo is my combined wheellock and matchlock musket, made in Suhl, and in large numbers, for Austria from the 1660's until ca. 1690.
Please...
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Forum: European Armoury
22nd December 2014, 07:30 AM
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Hi Detlef,
Those plain wheellock and...
Hi Detlef,
Those plain wheellock and matchlock guns soon became technically outdated by ca. 1700 and were replaced by flintlocks. The obsolete guns were sold off cheaply in large numbers by the...
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Forum: European Armoury
22nd December 2014, 07:20 AM
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Good morning, Marcus,
The thing...
Good morning, Marcus,
The thing about that spurious date 1591 is dead easy: it was done very dilettantely by some fool who neither knew what cyphers looked like 400 years ago nor could he...
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Forum: European Armoury
21st December 2014, 09:15 PM
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Replies: 29
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Forum: European Armoury
21st December 2014, 09:05 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
21st December 2014, 08:43 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
21st December 2014, 08:39 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
21st December 2014, 07:52 PM
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Hi Morten,
And...
Hi Morten,
And welcome here.
I can defintely tell you every little detail about your carbine.
1. It was manufactured in Suhl after...
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Forum: European Armoury
21st December 2014, 03:42 PM
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Hi Czernak/Jean-Luc,
Although...
Hi Czernak/Jean-Luc,
Although not an armor expert myself, I can fully testify that this an original Nuremberg mark.
It is important, though, to put it perfectly clear that this...
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Forum: European Armoury
20th December 2014, 12:00 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
19th December 2014, 06:16 PM
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You've been readin' my mind:D, Marcus,
...
You've been readin' my mind:D, Marcus,
That's exactly what our troublesome search is all about - and I am absolutely convinced we will detect a source of illustration earlier...
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Forum: European Armoury
19th December 2014, 05:16 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
19th December 2014, 04:47 PM
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Replies: 121
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Hi Marcus,
These sources of period...
Hi Marcus,
These sources of period illustrations are really very valuable discoveries - thank you so much!!!
You must have been quite busy toiling your way through all these Medieval codices...
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Forum: European Armoury
19th December 2014, 04:26 PM
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Another Saxon hemispherical flask of the same...
Another Saxon hemispherical flask of the same type and from the same series, most probably all made in Suhl workshops, but the plainest variant of them all; the wrought iron surfaces were blued...
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Forum: European Armoury
19th December 2014, 04:09 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
18th December 2014, 10:31 PM
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Two more Saxon samples, ca. 1585-1600, the...
Two more Saxon samples, ca. 1585-1600, the wrought iron mounts etched and the central plate of engraved silver - corresponding to the en suite style of the pommel plates of the pair of wheellock...
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Forum: European Armoury
18th December 2014, 08:56 PM
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Another very special flask is this circular...
Another very special flask is this circular specimen carved by the famous artisan Michael Maucher in Schwäbisch Gmünd, and decorated with engraved and fire-gilt strips of copper; ca. 1680.
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Forum: European Armoury
18th December 2014, 08:42 PM
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