Dating Earliest Barrels: the Importance of the Position of the Touch Hole

Matchlock · 24th January 2014, 10:20 AM

The hexagonal barrel with top flat, not sighted, the breech reinforced, the muzzle with large plate-shaped reinforcement, the surfaces not polished, retaining traces of red lead minium coating; small, rectangular hook at about one third of the overall length; the touch hole at the rear of the top flat. Original long and faceted, slightly downcurved, pointed oval tiller stock, possibly beechwood, put into the socket of the barrel.
Overall length 168 cm (ganzer Haken), bore 21 mm, 11.5 kg.
Exhibited in the Fortress of Coburg, Northern Bavaria, inv.-no IV.D.1.

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24th January 2014, 10:20 AM	#16
Matchlock (deceased) Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Bavaria, Germany - the center of 15th and 16th century gunmaking Posts: 4,310	A Very Rare And Early Wrought-iron Haquebut Retaining its Tiller Stock, ca. 1440-50 The hexagonal barrel with top flat, not sighted, the breech reinforced, the muzzle with large plate-shaped reinforcement, the surfaces not polished, retaining traces of red lead minium coating; small, rectangular hook at about one third of the overall length; the touch hole at the rear of the top flat. Original long and faceted, slightly downcurved, pointed oval tiller stock, possibly beechwood, put into the socket of the barrel. Overall length 168 cm (ganzer Haken), bore 21 mm, 11.5 kg. Exhibited in the Fortress of Coburg, Northern Bavaria, inv.-no IV.D.1. m Attached Images Last edited by Matchlock; 24th January 2014 at 12:11 PM.

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