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12th July 2012, 06:46 PM
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Fantastic. Thank you. These are extremely interesting weapons. Are there any period written acounts or descriptions of their use?
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13th July 2012, 01:21 PM
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As I said, the only illustrative period source I know is attached to post # 2.
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13th July 2012, 05:32 PM
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Right, illustrated. I meant whether there was any literary description anywhere. Did anyone ever write anything about their tactical use or do they show up in any lists of equipment in armies or armouries?
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13th July 2012, 06:42 PM
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Sorry, not to my knowledge; otherwise I would have mentioned it.
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15th July 2012, 06:27 PM
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Another very rare and big bore wheellock grenade launcher pistol, Northern Italy, ca. 1630, in the
Royal Museum of the Arme Forces, Brussels, Belgium: http://www.google.de/imgres?q=crossb...11,s:140,i:179 m |
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20th December 2013, 12:50 PM
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A Fine Nuremberg Hand Mortar at Cazo Auction House, Paris
The auction took place on Dec 1, 2013 but there are no results as yet.
Sorry for the quality of the images but their online catalog is in pdf only. Best, Michael |
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20th December 2013, 07:32 PM
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Now here is the story of provenance to a fine wheellock hand-mortar I introduced in post #3, its copper-alloy barrel cast in high relief with the city arms of Schwabach in Franconia/Bavaria, the blackened beechwood full stock carved in the characteristic manner of Suhl/Thuringia, ca. 1600-10, that is now preserved in the Bavarian Army Museum (BAM) Ingolstadt, just 30 km from where I live. A small part of the internal action is missing from the lock plate.
It remained unsold (!) at Sotheby's, London sale of Nov. 17, 1981, lot 52. Later it sold at Christie's, London, on July 10, 1985, at 9,000 euro, and it was resold at Hermann Historica, Munich, on April 26, 1986, lot 550, at more than 21,000 euro (all prices in today's money). Best, Michael Last edited by Matchlock; 20th December 2013 at 07:51 PM. |
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