Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post - Two Fine and Characteristic Military Matchlock Muskets, Suhl, ca. 1615-20

Matchlock · 27th February 2014, 10:50 AM

Hi Jasper,

With a bore and length like the instances given by you that musket was manufactured definitely before ca. 1630, when the Swedish king Gustav Adolf's decree of 1624 said that the ordinary musket had to have a smoothbore of 19-20 mm and a total length of 141 cm.
We know however from existing samples that even in Sweden, muskets continued to be built with a barrel length of 115-118 cm, corresponding to a total length of ca. 156 cm.

Best,
Michael

27th February 2014, 10:50 AM	#2
Matchlock (deceased) Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Bavaria, Germany - the center of 15th and 16th century gunmaking Posts: 4,310	Hi Jasper, With a bore and length like the instances given by you that musket was manufactured definitely before ca. 1630, when the Swedish king Gustav Adolf's decree of 1624 said that the ordinary musket had to have a smoothbore of 19-20 mm and a total length of 141 cm. We know however from existing samples that even in Sweden, muskets continued to be built with a barrel length of 115-118 cm, corresponding to a total length of ca. 156 cm. Best, Michael