1-4. The famos so-called Maximilian arquebus, ca. 1500, the lock parts missing (no lock plate), the butt stock painted with the coat of arms of Maximilian I (1459-1519) while still King before he became Holy Roman Emperor in 1508. From the collection of William Goodwin Renwick (d. 1972), on store at the Smithsonian Institution Washington for some twenty years after, its present whereabouts unknown.
Note the brass clamps in the stock below the breech which formerly held the lock parts.
5. A contemporary woodcut by Albrecht Dürer depicting a similar arquebus.
6-7. An early snap tinder mechanism without a lock plate, from the Maximilian Armory Inventories, ca. 1502.
Regards,
Michael
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