An extremely rare short Landsknechts' matchlock harquebus, Suhl ?, ca. 1540

[Matchlock]

Originally Posted by Spiridonov

Hello, Michael! My Dear Friend, thank You for sharing this. It's especially precious that You show us disassembled parts of arquebuses and inner surfaces of locks. Usually we can see only exterior and it doesn't give us complete information.

Hello Alexender,
My dear friend!

I knew right from the start that you would appreciate this important little extra information I tried to convey posting these images.

Unfortunately, they a are of much worse quality than the ones I usually take; I had to employ a digital camera that beloged to the firm my friend works for - and that thing was set to only a minimum rate of resolution. So each image was less than 50 kB, which is literally ridiculous, just nothing!
My own camera is set to a minimum of 4 MB for each picture ...


Anyway, I tried to make the best out of those 'photos' by photoshopping.


Best as ever,
Michael

[bkp747]

Another fantastic post, Michael. I love your detailed pictures, and the depth of your knowledge concerning weapons of this period. Thanks, again.

[Matchlock]

Originally Posted by bkp747

Another fantastic post, Michael. I love your detailed pictures, and the depth of your knowledge concerning weapons of this period. Thanks, again.

Thank you so much, from the bottom of my heart!


It is appreciations like this that make all the toil I took seem worthwhile: 40 years, almost solely dedicated to achieving that state of knowledge, expertise - and, of course, to gather together what is now

The Michael Trömner Collection.


With all my very best regards and wishes,

Michael/Michl
Micharl Trömner

[Spiridonov]

The harquebus preserved in the Straubing museum (on top)

Anybody know contacts of this museum?

[Andi]

Here is a link zu Gäubodenmuseum Straubing:

http://www.gaeubodenmuseum.de/index....id=1&res=10241

[Spiridonov]

Anybody know dimensions of this barrel from Gäubodenmuseum ?

[fernando]

Amazing. Its stock is so large as the barrel/forend.
... As if these were the antecipation of blunderbusses proportions.

[Spiridonov]

Originally Posted by Andi

Here is a link zu Gäubodenmuseum Straubing:

http://www.gaeubodenmuseum.de/index....id=1&res=10241

Unfortunately, the museum does not respond to my letters