Here is my translation:
Most popular among the double figures were dolphins' and dogs' heads tearing at an object. Nuremberg cannon founders played an important role in the distribution of dogs head handles. Not only Peter Mulich founded handles but so did Endres Pegnitzer the Elder. Both masters carried out orders for the Saxon court. Peter Mulich moved to Saxony, where he founded many barrels. The wide distribution of double headed handles, especially by the various gun founders of the Freiburg founding family Hilger, is supposed to be based on this Nurembeg influence. Bernhard Rathgen believed that Peter Mulich's dogs' heads were adopted by the Frankfurt master Stephan.
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Michael
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