A very fine small portable haquebut (Halbhaken), the stock dated 1516 (?)
Painted on the right side of the down curved buttstock is a coat-of-arms, flanked by a somewhat blurred date, probably 1516, and most probably of Nürnberg make.
It never had a lock.
Preserved at the Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow, purchased at auction at Christie's, Geneva, 16 April 1977.
Michael
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