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6th May 2014, 04:37 PM
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Location: Bavaria, Germany - the center of 15th and 16th century gunmaking
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So let's have a look now at the latest stage of development of the petronel, the 1580's and 1590's, up to ca. 1600.
The top attachments show Italian petronels of the most modern form of the bent stock, ca. 1580's to 1590. Here is a heavy petronel musket, the stock inlaid with plaques of engraved bone or staghorn, dated 1579, in the Rüstkammer (armory) of Emden, Northwest Germany. m Last edited by Matchlock; 6th May 2014 at 06:04 PM. |
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6th May 2014, 05:17 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Bavaria, Germany - the center of 15th and 16th century gunmaking
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A short 'retrospective' into the 1570's:
Attached find an unusually fine and elegant Italian matchlock petronel caliver, ca. 1570; overall length 1.31 m, sold at auction with San Giorgio's, Italy, 10 October 2007, lot 415. The barrel is profusely iron carved, and the delicate stock is inlaid with strips of staghorn along the edges. Just wonderful but it would seem a shame to use this piece in war. Yes, sometimes it happens that beauties like this caliver actually are for sale. m |
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