So let's have a look now at the latest stage of development of the petronel, the 1580's and 1590's, up to ca. 1600.
The top attachments show Italian petronels of the most modern form of the bent stock, ca. 1580's to 1590.
Here is a heavy petronel musket, the stock inlaid with plaques of engraved bone or staghorn, dated 1579, in the Rüstkammer (armory) of Emden, Northwest Germany.
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