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Matchlock · 21st November 2010, 07:35 PM

Clever input indeed, 'Nando,

Though I am not expert enough by far to competently answer your query I am sure that the spears shown by Gaston Phoebus were the formal predecessors of the so called Froschmaul-Spieße (frog's mouth spears) that came in use in the times of Maximilian I, and the heavy bear or boar spears depicted by Hans Burgkmair in the Triumph of Maximilian were widely in use for hunting from at least the 15th to the 18th centuries.

I attach images of the Maximilian frog's mouth spear from the Graz armory, ca. 1500-20, and cut down to 2.60 m in the 1560's, in my collection (on top of the halberds).

Best,
Michl

21st November 2010, 07:35 PM	#12
Matchlock (deceased) Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Bavaria, Germany - the center of 15th and 16th century gunmaking Posts: 4,310	Clever input indeed, 'Nando, Though I am not expert enough by far to competently answer your query I am sure that the spears shown by Gaston Phoebus were the formal predecessors of the so called Froschmaul-Spieße (frog's mouth spears) that came in use in the times of Maximilian I, and the heavy bear or boar spears depicted by Hans Burgkmair in the Triumph of Maximilian were widely in use for hunting from at least the 15th to the 18th centuries. I attach images of the Maximilian frog's mouth spear from the Graz armory, ca. 1500-20, and cut down to 2.60 m in the 1560's, in my collection (on top of the halberds). Best, Michl Attached Images