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20th June 2012, 06:10 PM
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If my humble french doesn't betray me
The 'barrel' would be the 'deposit/drum' for the rope hank; the orifice to tie the end of the rope.
Such was the suggestion given by the original person; that this could be a fishing crossbow. The interpreation of the member quoted in the (here) posted images is a bit 'distorted'. I have lurked into this forum; several members giving wings to their imagination, like suggesting an incendiary crossbow, boar hunting crossbow and so on. One of them even made a draft on how it should have worked. The idea of a fishing crossbow with a rope (string) seems to be the more consensual (to them). . |
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20th June 2012, 07:55 PM
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Wow, 'Nando,
What a fascinating interpretation! Thank you so much for enlightening my dense mind!  I am not ashamed to admit that I did not include that option. On the other hand, I know nothing on fishing. I remember seeing records on the employment of incendiary arrows with matchlock muskets as late as the second half of the 16th c. though, the illustration of ca. 1570-80 probably of Spanish origin (attached) - a combination of devices which classic weaponry tends to confine to the earliest days of European firearms. Well, you left me baffled if not flabbergasted.  Best, Michl |
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20th June 2012, 08:10 PM
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20th June 2012, 11:33 PM
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Is it just me, but......those hexagonal bolt heads look extremely out of place ....
Kind Regards David |
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21st June 2012, 03:11 PM
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Hi David,
They seems strange indeed and troubled me too at first; somehow 'out of period' (or rather of what we expect to be 'period'). On the other hand, quadratic bolt heads were in use since at least the 15th c. as a small Gothic alcove gun, preserved in virtually 'untouched condition' in my collection, shows. Similar devices are depicted in Philip Mönch's Kriegsbuch (Book of War Techniqes), 1496, fol. 32r. Best, Michael |
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21st June 2012, 03:51 PM
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.This model might well be an early one, but those bolts denounce a reproduction never earlier than mid XIX century ... right ? 
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