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20th June 2012, 10:33 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Kent
Posts: 2,658
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Is it just me, but......those hexagonal bolt heads look extremely out of place ....
Kind Regards David |
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21st June 2012, 02:11 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Bavaria, Germany - the center of 15th and 16th century gunmaking
Posts: 4,310
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Hi David,
They seems strange indeed and troubled me too at first; somehow 'out of period' (or rather of what we expect to be 'period'). On the other hand, quadratic bolt heads were in use since at least the 15th c. as a small Gothic alcove gun, preserved in virtually 'untouched condition' in my collection, shows. Similar devices are depicted in Philip Mönch's Kriegsbuch (Book of War Techniqes), 1496, fol. 32r. Best, Michael |
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21st June 2012, 02:51 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Portugal
Posts: 9,694
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 .This model might well be an early one, but those bolts denounce a reproduction never earlier than mid XIX century ... right ? 
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