DEADLY ANCIENT MYSTERY WEAPON: 16th C. Hackbutt
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the purse shape looks like a shield.needs to be checked.
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Looks like the gun used a serpentine to hold in the match, which is what a ton of matchlock muskets had at first.
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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.
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IVR could be latin ? Jesus Rex. Is it English ?
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all informations: // homepages . ihug . com . au/~dispater/handgonnes. htm
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Bronze handgonnes barrel, late 1400's
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I Thinks It's a show piece With ingravings That depict a great war that was Faught.
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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.
I don't know, thanks for the info.
cannonmn 4 years ago
Thanks, can you tell us the country of origin?
cannonmn 4 years ago