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Museum Replicas Ltd. (MRL) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Atlanta Cutlery Corp. (ACC) designing, replicating, manufacturing, reselling arms, armor and period clothing for men and women. It features swords , daggers , helmets , suits of armor , accessories, costumes and home accents with the historical themes of Greek , Roman , Viking ...
Uberti firearms have been featured in numerous Western movies thanks to their authentic looks. Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone visited the Uberti factory in the 1960s to procure replica Civil War and Old West revolvers for use in all his Western films including The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and Once Upon a Time in the West. [9]
Renaissance-era swords (35 P) Pages in category "Renaissance-era weapons" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total.
Two wheellock magazine guns, made circa 1645 and 1650 respectively, are attributed to Habrecht. [14] These guns use a different breech system; the breech is quarter-cylindrical, and rotates at an axis parallel to the bore. [14] This breech had one or two chambers. [3] A later gun by Dutch gunmaker Alexander Hartingk, uses a similar breech. [3]
The 19th and 20th centuries saw an acceleration in this evolution, with the introduction of the magazine, belt-fed weapons, metal cartridges, rifled barrels, and automatic firearms, including machine guns. Older firearms typically used black powder as a propellant, but modern firearms use smokeless powder or other propellants.
A drawing of ribauldequins, as designed by Leonardo da Vinci. Organ gun in the Bellifortis treatise (written ca. 1405, illustration from Clm 30150, ca. 1430). A ribauldequin, also known as a rabauld, ribault, ribaudkin, infernal machine or organ gun, was a late medieval volley gun with many small-caliber iron barrels set up parallel on a platform, in use in medieval and early modern Europe ...
The guns were shipped to India, but there are no written reports of their use, or how well they worked in service. An example of a seven shot sliding lock flintlock musket made by Jover and Belton may be found in the Royal Armouries Museum collection in Leeds. This musket, rack numbered 124 and dated 1786, also has an additional feature that ...
A goedendag (Dutch for "good day"; also rendered godendac, godendard, godendart, and sometimes conflated with the related plançon) was a weapon originally used by the militias of Medieval Flanders in the 14th century, notably during the Franco-Flemish War. The goedendag was essentially a combination of a club with a spear. Its body was a ...