Category: Italian
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A particular wheellock pistol in Turin
Marco Morin The weapon appears also interesting from a technical point of view since it has aparticularly safety system, used only rarely and, to our knowledge, only on pistols ofGerman origin.
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About the development of the Brescian wheellock in the last decades of the 16th century
Paolo De Montis Introduction One of Marco Morin’s most important contributions to hoplological literature was certainly his research into the German origin of the wheellock system, research often in conflict withthe studies of another eminent scholar, Claude Blair, according to whom the wheellock system was first created in Italy. The dating of the two sources…
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The Flintlock
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by
Torsten Lenk From the cover: “The text of this exhaustive work of reference on the construction, form and decoration of the flintlock was fully revised and corrected by Dr. Lenk for this first English translation. On its original publication in Sweden in 1939 it was acclaimed as the most important book on the subject yet…