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A GERMAN BRONZE HACKBUT
circa 1500
Formed in off-set octagonal stages, the rearward facets bevelled at the median, with raised mouldings at the breech and muzzle, tubular socket for a tiller, bronze pan, and triangular recoil-stop (the vent bushed, a threaded hole added beneath the breech socket, pan-cover broken)
30¾in (78,1cm)
circa 1500
Formed in off-set octagonal stages, the rearward facets bevelled at the median, with raised mouldings at the breech and muzzle, tubular socket for a tiller, bronze pan, and triangular recoil-stop (the vent bushed, a threaded hole added beneath the breech socket, pan-cover broken)
30¾
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