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25th August 2014, 11:59 PM
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NO, Dana W -
I haven't! Thanks a zillion!!! Please do send a PM (private message); I'm looking forward to receiving it ... With all my very best regards and wishes, Michael |
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29th August 2014, 03:14 PM
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Some more pictures of the salvaged parts.
The artillery (the falconets and the famous berços), the elephant tusks and the copper ingots for trade, the ship's astrolabes, the inumerous coins and an early sylized illustration of the Bom Jesus. Also a section of the main mast, where may be seen the masthead in which laid the topsail basket and the rigging fixation. . |
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29th August 2014, 06:27 PM
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Hi there,
Attached please find some images of the powder horns and brass-cast ball molds found on the wreck of the Bom Jesus; sadly, I had to zoom them up from stamp-sized images printed in the book. They are characteristic of the Italian taste of the 1520's to 1530's, readily copied by Nuremberg manufacturers by ca. 1525-30. From ca. 1530, powder horns started getting replaced by trapezoid flasks. Horns were re-enlivened from ca. 1580 through ca. 1650. They just got flattened, and a hook was added for attaching the flask to the leather frog of the caliverman they were reserved for. The musketeer, in contrast, was equipped with two trapezoid powder flasks: a larger one for the barrel powder and a small priming flask. Alternatively, he carried just the bandelier, either together with a small trapezoid priming flask, or one of the tube-like powder containers on the bandelier was reserved for priming; in the latter case, its top had a nozzle. The text of the book states that the horns were of unusually high quality, and therefore cannot not have been part of the equipment of the common mercenary/Landsknecht arquebusier. Three contemporary sources of illustration of ca. 1525 -1533 re-attached prove the contrary. It is commonly known that most mercenaries could afford to wear costumes reflecting the topic taste of style, and of high quality; the same is true for their 'high-tech' equipment. For closest comparison to horns and earliest flasks, please refer to my threads: http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...tle+pavia+1525 http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...ia+heller+1525 http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...ia+heller+1525 http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...ia+heller+1525 For more on earliest ball molds etc., please see my threads: http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...t=bullet+molds http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...ia+heller+1525 Best, Michael Trömner Last edited by Matchlock; 29th August 2014 at 08:19 PM. |
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29th August 2014, 08:24 PM
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Please note the technically topic state of the mechanisms mounted on the horns, for exactly measuring the correct load of powder needed for each shot.
Also, in the painting by Ruprecht Heller dated 1529, the earliest trapezoid flasks are portrayed to have been used in the Battle of Pavia in 1525 (two attachments at bottom). m Last edited by Matchlock; 29th August 2014 at 08:54 PM. |
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29th August 2014, 09:10 PM
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