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![]() [QUOTE=Matchlock]Although retaining the characteristic North Italian shape of butt stocks evolved in ca. 1570, and copied in Germany from ca. 1590 to 1600, this fine flask - and the gun it belonged... |
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![]() Finally, here are more detailed images of that heavy haquebut - and of the pan perforated by rust because it held the priming powder over most of the time of its age. Those wall guns were... |
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Matchlock
![]() Finally, here are the images of the pan perforated by rust, due to holding the priming powder for hundreds of years. For more details on this wall gun, see: ... |
Forum: European Armoury
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Matchlock
![]() Hi B., Since my early childhood days, I have always been a shooter myself. Until about 10 years ago, I used to fire some of my original 400 year-old matchlocks and wheellocks, plus... |
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Matchlock
![]() Hi Nando, Thank you for showing us this specimen. I think it is notable for contrasting to the earlier stuff on the one hand, and at the same time closely... |
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Matchlock
![]() Hi ChrisPer, Please forgive an old man for not replying any earlier.;) I much appreciate your adding those facts which help shedding light on a small matter of style from the aspect of practical... |
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![]() With five years having pased since the author started this thread it is time to add the scan of an original watercolor of the illustrated source attached to post #1. This is the... |
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Forum: European Armoury
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Matchlock
![]() From: Kriegs- u. Feuerwerkbuch des Ludwig Eyb vom Hartenstein, Franken ~1500; Ms H2/MS.B 26, University Library Erlangen. |
Forum: European Armoury
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Matchlock
![]() Another gilt flask, also Nürnberg, and dated 1568. m |
Forum: European Armoury
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Matchlock
![]() Another flask of hemispheric shape and often associated with those used by the Trabanten-Leibgarde of the Electors of Saxony, ca. 1590-1600; the embossed and gilt lion leads charcateristic of the... |
Forum: European Armoury
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Matchlock
![]() Two fine and rare Nürnberg made flasks. The first of hemispheric shape and often associated with those used by the Trabanten-Leibgarde of the Electors of Saxony, ca. 1590-1600, and the embossed... |
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Matchlock
![]() For mid-16th illustrated sources please see: http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.de/2012/11/early-explosives.html m |
Forum: European Armoury
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Matchlock
![]() Thank you, Barry, Yes, they doubtlessly are; those seem to be some of the ideal moments when arts actually met crafts ...:):cool: I also feel that the tiny little details of those splendid and... |
Forum: European Armoury
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Matchlock
![]() Hi Morten, That, of couse, is an alternative sight of collecting: to leave the items just the way they were when they entered your collection. I have... |
Forum: European Armoury
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Matchlock
![]() Hi Lee and Nando (in alphabetical order), Please do not get me wrong. By critisizing our logo I never meant to harm anybody of the great team whom we both luckily and happily call The Forum's... |
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Matchlock
![]() From ca. 1650 to 1700, the last one another sniper's carbine with set trigger, the belly butt stock not present any longer and featuring the earliest ring swivels , Sweden or Denmark, 1680's-1700. |
Forum: European Armoury
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Matchlock
![]() Hi Morten, Your carbine definitely looks better with a ramrod than it would without; just replacing the horn tip by a threaded iron finial would add much to its authentic look .;) ... |
Forum: European Armoury
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Matchlock
![]() Two carbines, the first a rare and earlier sample, 1630's-40, and made by Mathes Frosch, the barrel struck with his characteristic frog mark (Frosch is German for frog) and the Nürnberg city proof... |
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Matchlock
![]() Two Dutch carbines, the one on top 1660's, the other ca. 1650-60, the characteristic belly butt stocks reflecting the early Baroque style. Although both guns were made for horsemen, the peaceful... |
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Matchlock
![]() Military wheellock saddle pistols from the 1640's to ca. 1650, the later period of the Thirty Years War (1618-1648). Note the Suhl marks on the rear left side of the barrel half covered by the stock,... |
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Matchlock
![]() Hi Morten, That wheellock saddle pistol of yours can be dated to ca. 1625-35, and the type of the lock with that bar fixing the wheel centered denotes that it was a very solid construction;... |
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Matchlock
![]() Hi Barry, Thank you so much for appreciating what I have been striving to achieve over the last 40 years! It is responses like yours that make me feel that all the toil was worthwhile, and... |
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Forum: European Armoury
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Matchlock
![]() The Boy Who Laughed at Santa Claus by Ogden Nash http://www.guy-sports.com/fun_pictures/animations/santa_wave.gif In Baltimore there lived a boy, He wasn't anybody's joy. Although... |
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