Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post - Matchlock Petronels, Germany, ca. 1550-1600

Matchlock · 1st October 2014, 01:10 AM

There is a representation of arquebusiers carrying matchlock petronels, datable to ca. 1570;
from: Johann Samuel Ersch and Johann Gottfried Gruber: Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste. Leipzig, 1818.
("The Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste ("Universal Encyclopaedia of Sciences and Arts") was a 19th-century German encyclopaedia ... also known as the "Ersch-Gruber"):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allgeme...nd_K%C3%BCnste

1st October 2014, 01:10 AM	#28
Matchlock (deceased) Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Bavaria, Germany - the center of 15th and 16th century gunmaking Posts: 4,310	There is a representation of arquebusiers carrying matchlock petronels, datable to ca. 1570; from: Johann Samuel Ersch and Johann Gottfried Gruber: Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste. Leipzig, 1818. ("The Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste ("Universal Encyclopaedia of Sciences and Arts") was a 19th-century German encyclopaedia ... also known as the "Ersch-Gruber"): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allgeme...nd_K%C3%BCnste Attached Images Last edited by Matchlock; 1st October 2014 at 01:29 AM.