Forum: European Armoury
16th December 2014, 07:02 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
16th December 2014, 06:28 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
16th December 2014, 05:06 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
16th December 2014, 01:17 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
3rd July 2014, 08:54 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
3rd July 2014, 08:06 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
3rd July 2014, 08:05 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
2nd July 2014, 09:46 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
28th June 2014, 08:35 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
28th June 2014, 08:02 AM
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Attachments:
- ... close-ups of my...
Attachments:
- ... close-ups of my long and higly elegant marksman's wheellock musket, Augsburg, in the Italian manner, ca. 1590; note that the original ash wood ramrod is fitted with an...
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Forum: European Armoury
27th June 2014, 09:16 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
27th June 2014, 10:35 AM
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Dear Piotr,
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Dear Piotr,
Be patient! ;)
And please call me Michael.
I will add a lot more photos, and of course I will try and find out...
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Forum: European Armoury
24th June 2014, 11:20 PM
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Dear Piotr,
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Dear Piotr,
Thank you so much for your kind words, they made me blush!
Let's get serious though: actually, admiration...
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Forum: European Armoury
24th May 2014, 05:15 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
19th March 2014, 07:37 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
19th March 2014, 01:01 PM
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This the shape of a typical High Gothic quiver...
This the shape of a typical High Gothic quiver for quarrels/crossbow bolts; its basic form with the straight sides strongly influenced the earliest trapezoid powder flasks and, for the complete short...
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Forum: European Armoury
26th March 2012, 03:53 PM
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This beautiful etched patron of earliest type,...
This beautiful etched patron of earliest type, datable to ca. 1550-60 on the grounds of the style of its etching, its formal criteria and the fact that instead of the usual loops for leather strings...
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Forum: European Armoury
26th March 2012, 03:18 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
26th March 2012, 03:09 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
25th March 2012, 06:23 PM
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For comparison with the items in the previous...
For comparison with the items in the previous post, I repost my fine Suhl made Saxon patron of ca. 1580, which features the same shifting knob opening mechanism installed in the bottom mount.
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Forum: European Armoury
24th March 2012, 04:35 PM
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Top Quality Patrons, Etched and Inlaid With Bone
... for officers of the Trabanten-Leibgarde (bodyguards) of the Electors of Saxony, ca. 1580.
As you may have noticed on one on the samples in my collection, all Saxon patrons open by a shift button...
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Forum: European Armoury
25th April 2009, 04:32 PM
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Forum: European Armoury
25th April 2009, 04:30 PM
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Hello Richard,
Interesting enough, I...
Hello Richard,
Interesting enough, I sometimes extracted wadding plugs and felt plugs out of some loaded smoothbore flintlock barrels over the decades. They were placed on top of the ball to...
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Forum: European Armoury
23rd April 2009, 03:57 PM
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Hi Manuel and Richard,
Of course you are...
Hi Manuel and Richard,
Of course you are both right, but I forgot to mention that the tow in the pouch of my frog consists of many short fibers, each only ca. 5 cm (2 in.) long.
Best,
Michael
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Forum: European Armoury
21st April 2009, 08:22 PM
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Hello, Richard,
Exquisite remarks and theses...
Hello, Richard,
Exquisite remarks and theses as alyways.
I just beg to differ about the probable intended use of the tow in the pouch of the better quality frog; it is tow indeed but I am...
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