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Old 29th July 2009, 01:28 PM   #12
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Two matchlock arquebuses simillar to the drawing by Martin Merz, from the Ingenieurskunst- und Wunderbuch (Book on Engineering and Miracles), Weimar, ca. 1520's, fol. 196r.

The barrels can be formally dated to ca. 1500.

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