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Forum: European Armoury 11th December 2014, 12:39 AM
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Posted By ChrisPer
Are people interested in these cannon enough to...

Are people interested in these cannon enough to want other cannon posts?
Forum: European Armoury 25th November 2014, 06:52 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 17,487
Posted By ChrisPer
Finally, from the colonnade around the yard of...

Finally, from the colonnade around the yard of the Museum, a non-Rhodes French cannon of the period. From the plaque:

Cannon of Louis XII. Bronze, cast between 1498 and 1515.
Length 3.15m...
Forum: European Armoury 18th November 2014, 12:34 AM
Replies: 33
Views: 82,335
Posted By ChrisPer
Excellent posts thank you Michael and...

Excellent posts thank you Michael and Shakethetrees.

I would mention that the hooked back handle on tongs was an easy thing for a smith making his own tools, and very appropriate to tools handling...
Forum: European Armoury 10th November 2014, 01:24 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 17,487
Posted By ChrisPer
Hi Willy! The links you and others posted over...

Hi Willy! The links you and others posted over here made me want to be part of this, to pay back a bit of the colossal reference that EAAF have made their forum into. I don't have very much of the...
Forum: European Armoury 10th November 2014, 10:35 AM
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Views: 17,487
Posted By ChrisPer
7. Coulverine carrying the arms of Phillippe...

7. Coulverine carrying the arms of Phillippe Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
3.67m long
Bronze
Beginning of 16th Century
144mm cal
2,533 kg
Rhodes

Cul de lampe decorated with a sun.
Forum: European Armoury 10th November 2014, 08:30 AM
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Views: 17,487
Posted By ChrisPer
Next three guns: 3. Cannon of the Tower of...

Next three guns:

3. Cannon of the Tower of Saint Nicholas -Rhodes beginning of the 16th Century

Length 2.(43)m Calibre 232(?)mm 1,427kg?

Carries 3 arms - the order, Grand Master Emory...
Forum: European Armoury 10th November 2014, 01:41 AM
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Views: 17,487
Posted By ChrisPer
French cannon 15th-16th Century, Rhodes

I was recently privileged to go to the Musee de l'Armee, at the Hotel des Invalides, Paris. As an Australian I find the highest thrill in going to see places that had walls; and the artillery in one...
Forum: European Armoury 26th October 2014, 11:56 AM
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Views: 21,063
Posted By ChrisPer
Lauber was all there was in the early 1970s when...

Lauber was all there was in the early 1970s when I bought a copy, and it was a valiant effort in the days without the Internet and computer drafting. I always wanted to find what his story was.
...
Forum: European Armoury 25th October 2014, 12:27 PM
Replies: 20
Views: 21,063
Posted By ChrisPer
Perhaps someone could provide labels for the...

Perhaps someone could provide labels for the numbers in German as well?

As I want to learn more and more about wheellocks / Radschloss I am grabbing anything I can see whether English or German...
Forum: European Armoury 25th October 2014, 11:48 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 8,990
Posted By ChrisPer
This is unlike a typical screwplate in that there...

This is unlike a typical screwplate in that there are no obvious thread cutting edges. Perhaps it may be a go-no go guage or possibly a finishing tool for screws made in the shop, not an actual...
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