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22nd November 2008, 07:23 PM
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Historic illustrations from the Battle of Pavia, 1525
Note the staged barrels and the unstocked elongated muzzle sections, all corresponding closely to my harquebus.
The snap tinder locks illustrated in these tapestries are of slightly obsolete type in having only a small lockplate for the serpentine and the long spring still nailed to the forestock. This kind of lock is yet found on guns up to ca. 1530. Michael |
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22nd November 2008, 07:30 PM
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For an original snap tinderlock gun of ca. 1530, with a small brass lockplate only for the matchholder and the spring nailed to the forestock, please go to
http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=7138 Michael |
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7th December 2008, 03:00 PM
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Two Brescian snap matchlock harquebuses for Henry VIII's army, ca. 1540
The buttstocks, locks and acorn shaped triggers very similar to my 1520's piece but of longer form throughout and mounted with more modern octagonal barrels.
Both preserved at the collections of the Tower of London and The Royal Armouries Leeds respectively. The lock of the gun at Leeds a modern replacement. I was given the chance of taking these photos in 1990 when the harquebuses were still in the reserve collection at what was then just "The Tower". Fragments of similar harquebuses were found in the wreck of the Mary Rose that had sunken in Spithead Harbour in 1545. Michael |
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7th December 2008, 03:04 PM
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More.
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7th December 2008, 03:06 PM
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The one with the replaced lock.
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7th December 2008, 03:09 PM
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More.
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7th December 2008, 03:10 PM
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Another similiar, ca. 1550-60, at the Palazzo Ducale, Venice
Of somwhat later form.
Michael |
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