More snap matchlock harquebuses at the Battle of Pavia 1525

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From a series of seven tapestries made in Brussels in about 1527-30 and after drawings by a 'war reporter' executed live during the battle and then watercolored. The tapestries are preserved in the Museo di Capodimonte in Naples.

Pavia went down into war history as decisive in that it clearly marked the overwhelming advantage of the harquebusiers with their snap matchlock, respectively tinder snap-lock, guns.

Note the finely carved barrels and some painted stocks.

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