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DEADLY ANCIENT MYSTERY WEAPON: 16th C. Hackbutt

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Springfieldarsenal.com examines a bronze 16th C. Hackbutt wall gun, and asks for your help in deciphering the cryptic markings. The hackbut, as a form of firearm, is supposed to date from the mid-1400's. The initials IVR, in Latin, are an abbreviation for the Vatican City, but I'm not sure that meaning applies to the letters IVR that appear on this hackbut.

Here's the link to the ongoing Ebay discussion regarding this item. Feel free to join if you have information to share.

http://forums.ebay.com/db2/thread.jspa?forumID=13&threadID=2000288558

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  • I don't know, thanks for the info.

  • Thanks, can you tell us the country of origin?

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  • the purse shape looks like a shield.needs to be checked.

  • Looks like the gun used a serpentine to hold in the match, which is what a ton of matchlock muskets had at first.

  • A matchlock with a hackbutt & a sight! It has to be from the era when gunsmiths were going from a tiller to a wooden stock. Every one that I have ever seen were (welded) by striking a hammer against another device held to the barrel which is wrapped around a manderale. And not a "solid piece bored out". All that I have seen bare the maker's mark near the base / breech. Sorry but I have never seen an IVR before. Very rare! Too bad that the lock / dogshead and stock are missing.

  • IVR could be latin ? Jesus Rex. Is it English ?

  • all informations: // homepages . ihug . com . au/~dispater/handgonnes. htm

  • Bronze handgonnes barrel, late 1400's

  • I Thinks It's a show piece With ingravings That depict a great war that was Faught.

  • The "purse shape" is a fairly common shape of a heraldic shield for the period, IVR is probably the initials of the one who ordered the gun.

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