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Old 21st June 2010, 06:43 PM   #1
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Please keep searching for that color photo!!!!
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Old 21st June 2010, 06:59 PM   #2
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This is the only color image I have, sadly of poor quality.

The stock of course is a very convincing reproduction.

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Old 21st June 2010, 07:52 PM   #3
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Now that's what I call a brilliant image - thank you so much!

What about a cute bronze handgonne on the long and stoney road to cannon heaven every now and then, Fernando?

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else:
http://www.albrechts.se/Library/Pdfe...%20cannons.pdf
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Old 27th July 2010, 03:12 PM   #6
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Hi Michl,

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... What about a cute bronze handgonne on the long and stoney road to cannon heaven every now and then, Fernando? ...
Only now i saw this part .
Yes, i figure the heaven doorman will check on our collection before determining which section we will reside in.
You will have a palace allocated to you, i am sure .
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Old 27th July 2010, 08:05 PM   #7
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Hi Nando,

I'm just wondering which side that palace would be on ...

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Before the early 15th century, no makers or other marks are known, be it on guns or on any other work of arts and crafts; it was only during the 1st half of the 15th c. that artisans and craftsmen began to develop that special self confidence.

As I stated in some of the earlier posts in this thread, the Gothic minuscule script here is mostly ornament in the form of letters; only the word maria is identifiable as a religious invocation.

I would say that the ornamental script was engraved after the casting of the barrel; it looks just too delicate and neat for being the result of casting.

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