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14th March 2011, 09:14 PM
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Absolutely superb find, Alexander!
  I would be a very lonely guy on the forum without your brilliant inputs! Our minds sure are two of a kind.  If there is a higher resolution available, please email me! Best, Michael |
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14th March 2011, 09:44 PM
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unfortunately, I have not higher resolution version. This picture found one good man from russian historic forum. He has not highres too
 But I still find it
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14th March 2011, 11:23 PM
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Ha, the encountering of two geniuses
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15th March 2011, 12:29 AM
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Exactly, 'Nando,
Though you of course are the third in our alliance, amigo - just hope you would come on in more often on these subjects!We really feel sorta lost here, no kidding.  Best, Michl |
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15th March 2011, 12:31 AM
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If anyone does, Alexander, you will! And I look forward to that day.m |
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15th March 2011, 01:03 AM
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Here is a full view and a close-up of the South Tyrolian fresco Alexander posted above.
It is, as I wrote in an earlier thread, preserved on the wall of a 15th c. guardroom of the fortress Schloss Issogne, Aosta Valley, and can be dated closely to ca. 1495. Please note the hooked iron ramrod seen in front of the ramrod channel of the lower Landsknecht arquebus, which I had hitherto overlooked - my old eyes begin to lose their light ...  However, also note the cylindrical tubular iron finial (Setzerkopf) of the - most certainly - wooden ramrod shoved into the stock of the uppper arquebus - obviously the more modern loading tool! We can but speculate why the wooden ramrod prevailed with both 'military' and sporting guns until the first half of the eighteenth century ...Best, Michael Last edited by Matchlock; 15th March 2011 at 02:24 AM. |
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