Dating Earliest Barrels: the Importance of the Position of the Touch Hole

Matchlock · 18th January 2014, 04:44 PM

The remainder of photos of that Viertelhaken.

Note the top edge of the barrel acting as a foresight, and the only area of the stock where the leach did not do much harm: right below the muzzle.

Now imagine that small gun completely painted red 570 years ago - what a colorful impact those haquebuts must have conveyed originally!

Illustrations by Bartholomäus Freysleben, 1495-1500, and Jörg Kölderer, 1507, from the Maximilian armory inventories, depict the original color effect of stocks and barrels painted red and green, the Late-Gothic basic colors.

18th January 2014, 04:44 PM	#13
Matchlock (deceased) Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Bavaria, Germany - the center of 15th and 16th century gunmaking Posts: 4,310	The remainder of photos of that Viertelhaken. Note the top edge of the barrel acting as a foresight, and the only area of the stock where the leach did not do much harm: right below the muzzle. Now imagine that small gun completely painted red 570 years ago - what a colorful impact those haquebuts must have conveyed originally! Illustrations by Bartholomäus Freysleben, 1495-1500, and Jörg Kölderer, 1507, from the Maximilian armory inventories, depict the original color effect of stocks and barrels painted red and green, the Late-Gothic basic colors. Attached Images Last edited by Matchlock; 19th January 2014 at 12:33 PM.