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A couple of early gun powder containers

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Anders L

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I recently visited the weapons collection at my work, the city museum of Norrköping, Sweden. Many years ago a great weapons collection was donated to the museum and there are a couple of quite early powder horns dated to the late 16th C-1700.

Could be interesting for som of you, quite unusual designs. :grin:

An example:
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For more pics of this horn and others, visit my webpage. http://kurage.wordpress.com/2011/02/18/tjuvtittar-och-bjornlappskojs
 
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Very interesting. Do you know what material the larger of the doughnut-shaped containers is made from?

Spence
 
Thanks, Anders, very nice. Amazing what they came up with, I'm assuming the big round one is some kind of wood? Burl?
 
The bigger round one is made of a special type of birch, I dont know what it is called in english. Curly birch perhaps? I´m mostly impressed that its made from one piece except for the inner part as shown in the picture.

It is probably a primerhorn for the artillery in the 17th C. The smaller one is for hunting.
 
Nice photo's I'll have to get my daughter to read the text for me. She spent a year in Sweden and became fluent in Swedish. Myself I have yet to get across the pond! :hmm: :hmm:
 
ohio ramrod said:
Nice photo's I'll have to get my daughter to read the text for me. She spent a year in Sweden and became fluent in Swedish. Myself I have yet to get across the pond! :hmm: :hmm:
Hi Don, I used the Google toolbar at the website and it translate into English.
 
Very cool. Thanks for sharing! Nice to see how/what was done in other countries.
 
I hope that the google translator does its work well, I quess it could be difficult for it sometimes. There are some really special swedish words sometimes on my page... :confused:
 
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