Two Multibarrel Organ Guns by Leonardo da Vinci, ca. 1500

Matchlock · 4th October 2010, 03:59 PM

These are built from recycled 1540's short Landsknecht arquebuses barrels, assembled and mounted in the 2nd half of the 17th c. (Baroque period).

The top barrel with its heavily swamped and widely flared muzzle is even as early as ca. 1480!

For a perfectly preserved Landsknecht matchlock arquebus of ca. 1540, the barrel with identically incised vertical lines at the long muzzle section, in my collection,

please go

http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...ight=straubing

Best, Michael

4th October 2010, 03:59 PM	#6
Matchlock (deceased) Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Bavaria, Germany - the center of 15th and 16th century gunmaking Posts: 4,310	Two Simultaneously Firing 17th C. Organ Guns in the Veste of Coburg, Northern Bavaria These are built from recycled 1540's short Landsknecht arquebuses barrels, assembled and mounted in the 2nd half of the 17th c. (Baroque period). The top barrel with its heavily swamped and widely flared muzzle is even as early as ca. 1480! For a perfectly preserved Landsknecht matchlock arquebus of ca. 1540, the barrel with identically incised vertical lines at the long muzzle section, in my collection, please go http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...ight=straubing Best, Michael Attached Images