24th March 2012, 05:35 PM | #11 |
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Bavaria, Germany - the center of 15th and 16th century gunmaking
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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 on the underside while Nuremberg or Ausgburg productions open by a push button on the front. Photos taken by the author in the collection of famous Burg Eltz. m |
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