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Old 7th January 2011, 04:21 PM   #3
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Oh yes, Alexander,

For freaks like us this is a beauty indeed; for most 'normal' folks out there it would be nothing but a mere crude piece of rusted iron ...

I would like to add that this is one of the very rare little tiller 'pipe' guns (Pfeifenbüchsen) that were very popular in around 1430, during the Czech Hussite Wars.

As I pointed out in an earlier thread this one is about contemporary with the well known but wrongly dated Tannenbergbüchse which by no means is of ca. 1390.

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Michael
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