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Old 11th December 2014, 11:02 PM   #25
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A very fine and extremely rare Landsknecht's Langspieß, Southern Germany, Bavaria, ca. 1525-40, the original ash haft profusely profusely covered with knobs all over; the head struck with a maker's mark.
Overall length ca. 6 meters!
Rüstkammer, Kunstsammlungen Veste Coburg.

My brilliant friend Armin König, Hohenberg a.d. Eger, built an exact copy of this piece - striking the hard ashwood with hundreds of knobs that took extremely long to soak in water and stand up in the end; Armin told me he would never again in his life undertake a toil like that ...
http://www.engerisser.de/Bewaffnung/.../Firearms.html


On the photos, his copy, the head struck with Armin's maker's mark, is shown together with the original.


Photos copyrighted by Armin König.
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