Web site with seveal Gonne's

[KABAR2]

Here is a link that may prove interesting ..........


Here is an example of what they have...


http://raabs.homepage.t-online.de/Meine%20Webseite/Sammlung/Fotos/ohne%20Schloss/navigation.htm

[Cannoneer]

Hey Herr KABAR, do you speak this lingo? Those are all photos of real historic pieces aren't they?

[BoomLover]

Pretty interesting site, some real old ones there! Thanks for posting this one! BoomLover

[Max Caliber]

Great stuff but the gonne at top center looks to me like a badly done fake, too clean,crisp and crudely finished. The active rust is not convincing either.

[Double D]

Great stuff but the gonne at top center looks to me like a badly done fake, too clean,crisp and crudely finished. The active rust is not convincing either.

You mean this one: Stangen- oder Pfeifenbüchsenrohr, Spanien?, um 1450

Looks to me to have been slathered in Renaissance Wax.

[BBF]

Hey DD
Where did you get that Umlaut?

[KABAR2]

Great stuff but the gonne at top center looks to me like a badly done fake, too clean,crisp and crudely finished. The active rust is not convincing either.

Center gonne tanslates roughly as:

"Bar or pipe Bush tube, Spain?, also reinforced 1450 reinforced by 7 run rings round iron tube, mouth and gunpowder ignition hole up in hollow, joint seals to the Abklappen, is a locking bolts with double Volute as key."

With out handeling it I withold judgment, the amount of rounding and certian areas reduced by corrosion seem to say
that it is old..... possibly brought up and conserverd from a wreck? if so the active rust may be from poor conservation....
maybe all the salts were not pulled out before being put in the open air........



Allen <><

[GGaskill]

Where did you get that Umlaut?

Try this page for the basic process.  The ü combination is alt+129 with the 129 typed on the numeric pad.  Try this page for some additional German characters.

[Double D]

Hey DD
Where did you get that Umlaut?

I clicked on 

http://raabs.homepage.t-online.de/Meine%20Webseite/Sammlung/Fotos/ohne%20Schloss/navigation.htm

Then I clicked on this picture.

http://raabs.homepage.t-online.de/Meine%20Webseite/Sammlung/Fotos/ohne%20Schloss/Stangenbuechse1.gif

Then I copy and pasted Stangen- oder Pfeifenbüchsenrohr, Spanien?, um 1450

George's way is easier.