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Forum: European Armoury 30th September 2014, 07:31 PM
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Posted By Matchlock
As I said, and will show soon, those butts have a...

As I said, and will show soon, those butts have a trap, a recess with a sliding wooden cover; it was NOT a "patchbox" but was used to keep small cleaning utensils, like a worm and scourer, and...
Forum: European Armoury 30th September 2014, 12:39 PM
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Posted By Matchlock
Hi Cavalco, These...

Hi Cavalco,


These links from your initial post did not seem to work, at least on my computer using Windows 7 and the latest version of Mozilla Firefox browser, so I added...
Forum: European Armoury 30th September 2014, 12:36 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 31,194
Posted By Matchlock
Please see my new thread on gun rests/forks: ...

Please see my new thread on gun rests/forks:
http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=19127

Best,
Michael
Forum: European Armoury 30th September 2014, 10:08 AM
Replies: 13
Views: 31,194
Posted By Matchlock
Hello, Cavalco, ...

Hello, Cavalco,


And a great big WELCOME from me as well - especially as you made a real...
Forum: European Armoury 22nd September 2014, 04:09 PM
Replies: 80
Views: 170,154
Posted By Matchlock
For more on earliest samples of the...

For more on earliest samples of the superimposed-load principle, please cf.:

http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=13586&highlight=tannenberg,...
Forum: European Armoury 19th September 2014, 09:31 AM
Replies: 43
Views: 38,211
Posted By Matchlock
Hi there, From aspects of science, and...

Hi there,


From aspects of science, and especially chemistry, we know that, with fine dust-like blackpowder before ca. 1600, saltpeter is volatile and such "meal" powder will generally not...
Forum: European Armoury 14th September 2014, 08:54 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 18,895
Posted By Matchlock
Please note this fascinating illuminated ms. of...

Please note this fascinating illuminated ms. of ca. 1430:

Büchsemeisterei-Buch, Suabia or Switzerland, Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Ms Rh hist. 0033 b.
...
Forum: European Armoury 14th September 2014, 03:38 AM
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Views: 18,895
Posted By Matchlock
More author's photos from 3rd June 1987, when, in...

More author's photos from 3rd June 1987, when, in the presence of the curator Dieter Ritzenhofen, was the first to identify, and photograph, the gun arrows at Burg Eltz, Bad Münstereifel, Germany.
...
Forum: European Armoury 14th September 2014, 02:39 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 18,895
Posted By Matchlock
More on the few existing sensational gun arrows...

More on the few existing sensational gun arrows (German: Büchsenpfeile) from the early 1300's, the oldest and rarest gun ammunition ever - taken over from the bow and crossbow, as well as the first...
Forum: European Armoury 14th September 2014, 12:20 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 18,895
Posted By Matchlock
Important Basic Historic Facts on the Development of Earliest Guns and Ammunition

This Swedish site is called
Albrechts Bössor (Albrecht's Handgonnes):

...
Forum: European Armoury 13th September 2014, 05:24 PM
Replies: 80
Views: 170,154
Posted By Matchlock
The watercolor attached below is from Cod. vind....

The watercolor attached below is from Cod. vind. 3069, dated 1411, ÖNB Wien (Austrian National Library, Vienna), fol. ....

...
Forum: European Armoury 13th September 2014, 04:17 PM
Replies: 80
Views: 170,154
Posted By Matchlock
The Word's Oldest Known surviving gun, ca. 1390-1410, fitted with a lock mechanism!

The Word's Oldest Known surviving gun, ca. 1390-1410,
fitted with the earliest tinderlock mechanism,

and preserved in

The Michael Trömner...
Forum: European Armoury 12th September 2014, 10:48 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 15,901
Posted By Matchlock
Hi there, ...

Hi there,


Sorry for noticing that remarkable barrel only tonight; I had to stay in hospitals from Sept. 2012 through late April 2014.

...
Forum: European Armoury 12th September 2014, 05:46 PM
Replies: 37
Views: 86,324
Posted By Matchlock
Hi Andi, ...

Hi Andi,


Thanks for adding that really precious item!

...
Forum: European Armoury 12th September 2014, 04:57 PM
Replies: 25
Views: 26,901
Posted By Matchlock
Exactly, Jasper, That's a setting...

Exactly, Jasper,

That's a setting unimaginable to ever surpass ... !

Thanks for showing,
and best,
Michael
Forum: European Armoury 10th September 2014, 11:06 AM
Replies: 33
Views: 94,577
Posted By Matchlock
Thank you so much, from the bottom of my heart! ...

Thank you so much, from the bottom of my heart!


It is appreciations like this that make all the toil I took seem worthwhile: 40 years, almost solely dedicated to achieving that state of...
Forum: European Armoury 9th September 2014, 07:34 PM
Replies: 25
Views: 26,901
Posted By Matchlock
Of course they are, Nando, ...

Of course they are, Nando,


But when they appear on cast-copper alloy barrels (brass or bonze), it is only on items after ca. 1550.

The reason is that they started...
Forum: European Armoury 9th September 2014, 06:55 PM
Replies: 25
Views: 26,901
Posted By Matchlock
Exactly! Best, Michael

Exactly!

Best,
Michael
Forum: European Armoury 9th September 2014, 03:33 PM
Replies: 45
Views: 173,498
Posted By Matchlock
I do not know for sure but I guess that strange...

I do not know for sure but I guess that strange name has to do with Medieval monks. In the 14th through the 16th centuries, abbeys and orders were known to be cultural and intellectual centers,...
Forum: European Armoury 9th September 2014, 01:26 PM
Replies: 45
Views: 173,498
Posted By Matchlock
These seem to be the the earliest known dated...

These seem to be the the earliest known dated Nuremberg barrels to feature an elongated round muzzle section (German: Mündungskopf): a pair of Nuremberg cast-bronze falconet barrels founded, signed...
Forum: European Armoury 9th September 2014, 04:29 AM
Replies: 45
Views: 173,498
Posted By Matchlock
- Another detailed view of two rounded and...

- Another detailed view of two rounded and conical/tapering padlocks, plus a rectangular, all securing a heavy oaken iron-mounted ammuniton chest in a Maximilian arsenal, ca. 1500; from Essenwein:...
Forum: European Armoury 9th September 2014, 04:16 AM
Replies: 45
Views: 173,498
Posted By Matchlock
- The Monk's Gun, ca. 1525-30, in the Rüstkammer,...

- The Monk's Gun, ca. 1525-30, in the Rüstkammer, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

- The rounded conical/tapering Nuremberg padlock, ca. 1525-30, formerly in the author's...
Forum: European Armoury 9th September 2014, 03:54 AM
Replies: 45
Views: 173,498
Posted By Matchlock
I found these sectional drawings somewhere on the...

I found these sectional drawings somewhere on the web about 10 to 12 years ago, but unfortunately lost the data of their source in the meantime.

I do remember the person being Swiss, though.
...
Forum: European Armoury 9th September 2014, 02:58 AM
Replies: 25
Views: 26,901
Posted By Matchlock
Hi Dana W, For stylistic...

Hi Dana W,


For stylistic as well as formal reasons, this breechloading bronze cannon barrel is closely datable to ca. 1530-1550; many of these are of Portuguese manufacture - now,...
Forum: European Armoury 9th September 2014, 01:45 AM
Replies: 15
Views: 25,422
Posted By Matchlock
No problem, Nando, My dear friend, ...

No problem, Nando,
My dear friend,


You obviously posted your thoughts quite rapidly while I was desperately coping with my computer setttings, trying to get them to work out with...
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