![]() It is preserved complete save the missing belt hook. ![]() This cranequin is most remarkable for both its outer and hidden (!) decoration the presence of the latter, in places normally not accessible, denotes, together with the unusually fine workmanship, that this most certainly was a MASTERPIECE presented to the guild commision in order to get access to the Nuremberg guild of cranequin makers ( Windenmacher). I must say that I am very proud of the fact that I became both his friend and adviser and that some of his fine pieces were in my collection before I had to concentrate on firearms. The black pavise bears the Nuremberg coat of arms both painted on the obverse and branded as a proof mark at the reverse - see details. 1550, etched overall with animals and hunting scenes amidst foliage.Ī very rare 15th century quiver for quarrels is covered with pigskin and a fine tubular quiver for arrows, South Tyrol, early 16th century, is covered with painted leather and iron mounted. Many of the cranequins are dated the dates range from 1504 (the oldest known dated cranequin in the world!) over 1532 (both formerly in my collection), 1538, 15 (I may be mixing up two dates). You will remember the incendiary arrows from my former post on this subject. Some of the quarrels even have painted hafts and fletches. The especially fine and unique painted quarrel casket dated 1524 was in the famous Vienna collection of Albert Figdor about 100 years ago. Here are a few impressions of the arrangement plus some details of special pieces - enjoy! When you enter the room you feel like being on a journey back to the Middle Ages right away. The atmosphere the ensemble conveys, including that very special smell that only extremely old things have, is absolutely overwhelming. ![]() My friend built a room in the Gothic taste for his collection, using 500 year old furniture and fittings. The huge Gothic crossbow, its tiller almost completely veneered with white bone plaques, is an abolutely fantastic and important piece of ca. It is certainly one of the latest composite bows made. Another, the shortest, made in about 1530, comes from the collection of the Dukes of Brunswick. Peterson collection and being illustrated in his Book of the Gun. ![]() Their distinctive, gracefully shaped stocks of fruitwood were frequently carved or inlaid with bone.This belongs to a friend of mine and contains only the finest stuff, such as three Gothic crossbows with horn composite bows, one of them, the earliest, of. ![]() These prodds, or stone crossbows, were designed to discharge small stones or clay pellets (rather than arrows) so that the valuable pelts of foxes, ermine, and other small animals would not be blemished. Lighter forms of the crossbow evolved in Italy and France. While the bows and the release mechanisms were the work of specialists, the stocks were made by the same artisans and decorators who provided stocks for firearms. Heavy crossbows, widely used in central Europe for big-game hunting, had massive gun-shaped stocks, often veneered or inlaid with engraved staghorn. The crossbow remained popular, however, as a sporting weapon for target shooting and particularly for the hunt, because of its precision, quiet discharge, and the range of its projectiles-up to four hundred yards, depending on the size of the weapon. The most powerful projectile weapon during the Middle Ages, the crossbow had gone out of general use in warfare by the mid-sixteenth century, as a result of the increasing efficiency of hand-held firearms. ![]()
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