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1st October 2014, 01:10 AM
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Location: Bavaria, Germany - the center of 15th and 16th century gunmaking
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There is a representation of arquebusiers carrying matchlock petronels, datable to ca. 1570;
from: Johann Samuel Ersch and Johann Gottfried Gruber: Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste. Leipzig, 1818. ("The Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste ("Universal Encyclopaedia of Sciences and Arts") was a 19th-century German encyclopaedia ... also known as the "Ersch-Gruber"): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allgeme...nd_K%C3%BCnste Last edited by Matchlock; 1st October 2014 at 01:29 AM. |
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19th August 2023, 05:26 AM
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Location: Netherlands
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More pictures of the same musket from post 20, top one in the black and white scan from the Wallis & Wallis auction 1971.
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