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Old 4th October 2010, 03:11 PM   #5
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Default Another Late 15th C. Organ Gun
This one is built re-using older bronze haquebut barrels, ca. 1470.
Drawn by Philip Mönch in his Kriegsbuch (Book of War) in 1496, cod.pal.germ. 126.

Also note the iron reinforced limestone ball and the incendiary arrow.

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