Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post - Pre-1533 Nuremberg Snap-Tinderlock Arquebuses

Matchlock · 29th August 2014, 08:24 PM

Please note the technically topic state of the mechanisms mounted on the horns, for exactly measuring the correct load of powder needed for each shot.
Also, in the painting by Ruprecht Heller dated 1529, the earliest trapezoid flasks are portrayed to have been used in the Battle of Pavia in 1525
(two attachments at bottom).

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29th August 2014, 08:24 PM	#12
Matchlock (deceased) Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Bavaria, Germany - the center of 15th and 16th century gunmaking Posts: 4,310	Please note the technically topic state of the mechanisms mounted on the horns, for exactly measuring the correct load of powder needed for each shot. Also, in the painting by Ruprecht Heller dated 1529, the earliest trapezoid flasks are portrayed to have been used in the Battle of Pavia in 1525 (two attachments at bottom). m Attached Images Last edited by Matchlock; 29th August 2014 at 08:54 PM.