Just for your viewing pleasure

[raszpla]

:wink: :thumbsup: :hatsoff:

 

[rickystl]

Staghorn Powder Flasks. 1570-1600. :wink:

 

[hanshi]

THAT is an amazing collection :shocked2: . He could charge people to visit!

 

[dave_person]

Hi Ricky,
Thank you very much for posting those photos. Wonderful collection and very inspiring. I find it interesting that even during the hand gonne days, some makers attempted to decorate barrels and stocks.

dave

 

[rickystl]

Hi Dave! You noticed that too. That's why he sent a close up of the wood stock on that hand gonne. I find it amazing the stock is still intact at all. The decoration is really cool. Rick.
(Waiting anxiously for more photos).

 

[rickystl]

This is REALLY cool!!
Nuremberg Musketeer's Combined Powder & Priming & Cartridge Holder, ca. 1600.
At the bottom of this Post I'm copying his description. It's possible one of the talented craftsmen on this forum could duplicate this item?
Enjoy. Rick.

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Internally it consists of a two chamber system for barrel and priming powder with separate tapering sprung tap nozzles respectively; the nozzle for barrel powder has the usual spring loaded cut off lever for dosage at the base. The wrought iron lid base is struck with the maker's mark, a horn with an arrow thru the loop, and the Nuremberg City mark. The trapezoidal wooden core is covered with blackened leather, the edges reinforced with blackened iron. There are four rings for a suspension cord and a curved iron belt hook at the back. All of the spring actions are very tight even after 400 years. The lid bears an old collection number in white ink. The height is 23 cm.

The plicated leather pouch on the front with lid (draw string incomplete) contains a tinned iron cartrigde holder with three compartments for paper cartridges of a caliber of ca. 20 mm each, meaning that this is an extremely rare piece of infantry combined accouterment for a musketeer or guardsman with a heavy musket, probably a wheel-lock.

The whole piece is extremely well wrought, finished and preserved in virtually untouched, 'near mint' condition. It came from the Henk L. Visser collection via Bonhams. None of the usual Thirty Years War mass production flasks compares to this, so it must be one of a very small number of combination flasks made in ca. 1600 for a limited group like a guard.

 

[rickystl]

WOOPS, I missed the front view. Here it is:

 

[mike mckinney]

Now that is impressive> I really like that wheellock musket with the plug bayonet :thumbsup:

 

[Karl Helweg]

OK first just wow. I would be thrilled to have a tenth as many reproductions.

This one is especially interesting since I have been on a "quest" to find the earliest examples of a blunderbuss. Is there any specific information available about its history?

Does anyone else happen to know of a confirmed pre-1600 matchlock blunderbuss?

 

[wulf]

Ricky...........I think I'm going blind.....
Either that or my brain locked up....You have
accomplished what "Playboy" was never able to do.
Wulf

 

[rickystl]

Hello again. Three additional photos of original accountrements I thought you might like to see.
1580-1600. Incredible!! Rick. :hatsoff:

 

Once. again, Thank you for the visual feast!

CP