- source of period artwork to that little rond handcannon barrel of ca. 1400: a depiction of a baptismal font, ca. 1400-20, Prague
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- a singular, highly important piece: the oldest-known complete long gun in the word, ca. 1400-10, a High-Gothic tiller gun with oak stock, socketed hexagonal barrel retaining its original red-lead minium paint, primitive spring-loaded match holder and small slipped-on recoil hook (both working-time additions of ca. 1430):
http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...andgun+1400-10
- exact representation of such a gun dated 1411: Johann Hartlieb:
Kriegsbuch, Austrian National Library Vienna, cod.vind. 3039, fol. 38v
- from the same source: the use of superimposed loads! for such guns, fol. 11r