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Old 4th May 2014, 05:32 PM   #4
Matchlock
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the gun arrow exhibited in the Imperial Castle (Kaiserburg) Nürnberg - sadly exhibited together with a huge wall crossbow and misidentified as 'a wall crossbow quarrel' (German: Bolzen/Pfeil für Wallarmbrusten)!
The hemp binding is now missing from the rear section of the haft.
Author's photos and David Jaumann's); for the latter see his posts and photos my thread:
http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...thic+crossbows
Go to page 7, post #187ff. !

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