Another incendiary quoit.

[fernando]

I realize the name quoit is/was genericaly attributed to objects with a ring form for throwing purposes, whereas the original name of this weapon weapon was certainly another one. Currently being called pechkranz in german and pitch garland in english, the name i spotted in Portugal is 'argola de fogo' (fire ring), in a reference to the the siege of Malta in 1565, where this type of incendiary weapons was handled by specific infantry units (hoop throwers).
This example appearing to have Veste Coburg as provenance, dated XVI-XVII century, corresponds to Type III in the work Die Macht des Feuers by Alfred Geibig.
Its construction being a twisted bundle of sticks caged in woven rods, soaked in incendiary materials and wrapped in nitrated strips of cloth (if i put it right).
Eventualy these things became extremely fragile during time, easily losing their outer layer material and also discoloring with light exposition.
This one is far from intact, but i hear that there are much worse out there.
For such reason i have an acrylic box made to keep it.

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