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28th April 2012, 05:15 PM
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Tiller-stock arquebuses with what seem to be brass barrels, in illustrations from the Wolfegg Hausbuch, Bavaria, ca. 1480.
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28th April 2012, 06:59 PM
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For the earliest known actually surviving tiller arquebus, ca. 1400-10, please see
http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...354#post138354 |
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30th April 2012, 04:43 PM
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A highly interesting wrought-iron tiller arquebus with folding socket section (the wooden tiller stock missing), unlocked by a wing-nut for carrying on the shoulder. Large touch-hole molding, the barrel reinforced by various iron rings.
Overall length 45.5 cm, bore 12 mm, weight 2.9 kg. Probably of Spanish make, mid-15th c., the tiller inscribed stating that it was deaccessioned by the former arsenal of the Castle of Montjuic, near Barcelona. At the beginning of this thread, I posted another contemporary tiller arquebus from the same provenance, in my collection. m |
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3rd May 2012, 09:59 PM
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Michael, GREAT photos! Thank You!
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16th May 2012, 04:08 PM
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19th July 2014, 09:04 PM
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All the barrels shown below came from Montjuic Castle, Spain.
Ed was offered them as a lot by a dealer in 2009. Thanks a lot, Ed, my old friend, for the photos!  All of them date from ca. 1450. One of them even retained a portion of its original wooden tiller stock! For a fragmented barrel of the same type and date in the Royal Armouries Leeds, and dated too early by their experts please also see: http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=18781 Actually, it was Ed who invited me to join vikingsword.com in 2008, guiding my first steps here! My God, more than 4,100 of my posts have lain between - disregarding the fact that I was hospitalized for more than a year and a half, from Sept. 2012 through late April 2014, and just a step away from dying, again and again and again ... My will to be STRONG, TRUE, and FREE, finally saved me. I still wish Ed would be around here once more, just the way he used to years ago ...   Best, Michael All images attached to this post were taken by Ed in 2009, and are copyrighted by him. Last edited by Matchlock; 19th July 2014 at 10:21 PM. |
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20th July 2014, 12:34 AM
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The attachments depict the forerunner types of the 'long' arms discussed above, not yet fitted with reinforcing rings.
They are termed Bohemian pipe guns (German: Böhmische oder Hussiten-Pfeifen) dating from the 1430's. The ones shown here are preserved at the Museum of Tabor, Czechia. They all retain their rear original sockets, the hafts of the two on the image attached on top being modern replacements. The socketed barrel shown on all images following the first is 42 cm long overall including the socket, its bore 20 mm. A wrought iron! ball of that caliber excavated from a historic Hussite battleground is shown next to the muzzle. For more on that type of longarms cf. my threads: http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...ontjuic+castle http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...light=montjuic Last edited by Matchlock; 20th July 2014 at 12:49 AM. |
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