Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post - Finest 16th to 18th Century German Powder Flasks

Matchlock · 18th December 2014, 03:11 PM

Although retaining the characteristic North Italian shape of butt stocks evolved in ca. 1570, and copied in Germany from ca. 1590 to 1600, this fine flask - and the gun it belonged to - cannot have been made before ca. 1630. As is often the case with highly decorated arms for the nobility, they were ordered, and made, in an obsolete style of military weapons that was typical of a period some 20-40 years earlier.

In The Michael Trömner Collection is a very fine Augsburg made sniper's wheellock musket from ca. 1590-1600, its barrel smoothbore but 137 cm long! - the musket measures 1.66 m all over - , the butt stock of which basically corresponds to the shape of this flask.
The tunnel back sight enables special vertical adjustment by means of a turnscrew on top of the tunnel housing.
See top atts., then there are more views of that flask.

The photos on top copyrighted by the author.

18th December 2014, 03:11 PM	#5
Matchlock (deceased) Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Bavaria, Germany - the center of 15th and 16th century gunmaking Posts: 4,310	Although retaining the characteristic North Italian shape of butt stocks evolved in ca. 1570, and copied in Germany from ca. 1590 to 1600, this fine flask - and the gun it belonged to - cannot have been made before ca. 1630. As is often the case with highly decorated arms for the nobility, they were ordered, and made, in an obsolete style of military weapons that was typical of a period some 20-40 years earlier. In The Michael Trömner Collection is a very fine Augsburg made sniper's wheellock musket from ca. 1590-1600, its barrel smoothbore but 137 cm long! - the musket measures 1.66 m all over - , the butt stock of which basically corresponds to the shape of this flask. The tunnel back sight enables special vertical adjustment by means of a turnscrew on top of the tunnel housing. See top atts., then there are more views of that flask. The photos on top copyrighted by the author. Attached Images Last edited by Matchlock; 18th December 2014 at 07:35 PM.