[Matchlock]

Attached here is another detail of the muzzle section of the gun discussed in the previous post.


A matchlock barrel in the Landeszeughaus Graz, inv.no. RG 2 in Robert Brooker's Eine Radschloss-Sammlung - A Wheellock Collection, 2007, mounted on a later stock, and together with a ca. 1535-40 wheellock mechanism, is struck with that mark and the date 1537 (definitely misread as 1527 in Brooker) - see author's photos from 2005 attached.

Two important matchlock arquebuses, the barrels struck twice wit that crossed arrows mark and the date 1539, are in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg, inv.no. W 494, and in the author's collection respectively - see:
post #66 in this thread,
and
http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...harquebus+1539
http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...harquebus+1539

For cranequins with that mark dated 1532, 1540 and 1545 respectively, see:
http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...cranequin+1532
http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...cranequin+1532
http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...cranequin+1532
and attachment to post #70 in this thread.


Attached are photos of another, almost identical wall gun still preserved in the Hohenlohe-Langenburg collection, the barrel struck with the same mark and the identical date 1537; most probably, the stock is the original although figured slightly diferent from that of the first piece.

Author's photos.