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7th January 2014, 01:04 PM
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Location: Bavaria, Germany - the center of 15th and 16th century gunmaking
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Hi Fernando,
All the other instances cited by you are in my opinion alright and stylistically apt for this unusually early mid-16th c. wheellock pistol. You know this is my special fleld of expertise. The inlay in the stock is not of ivory, as many people still tend to think, but either consists of mammal bone or staghorn. Best, Michael |
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7th January 2014, 01:33 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Bavaria, Germany - the center of 15th and 16th century gunmaking
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This ca. 1560 double wheellock wender pistol and a ca. 1555 three-shot superimposed-load pistol, both in the Vienna museum collection, show how the grip of their 1554 wender 'companion' A1135 in the Wallace in all probablity originally terminated before today's inept lemon-shaped pommel of ca. 1610 was associated to it: either in a symmetrically flattened 'fishtail' butt finial or in a 'dagger-style' pommel.
The long engraved bone sleve on the grip is not original either, the style of its engraving being mere fantasy. m Last edited by Matchlock; 7th January 2014 at 01:47 PM. |
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