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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Bavaria, Germany - the center of 15th and 16th century gunmaking
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Two fine military wheel-lock muskets from my collection, the upper with 'high tech' combined wheel- and snap matchlock, Suhl, Thuringia, dated 1602, the lower Nuremberg, ca. 1600; both preserved in near mint condition throughout. Below a detached, very early wheel-lock, North Italian, ca. 1535.
And a few of my earliest wheel-lock spanners, the dating range comprising the 1520's to up to ca. 1560. From left to right: ca. 1520's, combined spanner and priming flask ca. 1560, combined spanner, screw driver and priming flask ca. 1530, North Italian Right, from top to bottom: each ca. 1540, combined spanners and screw drivers. Those little guys were kept in the butt traps of short wheel-lock harquebuses, so that's what those early 'patch boxes' actually contained. Michael |
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