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Museum Quality Models & Miniatures
This website is a showcase of a private collection of highend quality bronze, brass and wooden cannons, mortars and reproduction of ancient models in different scales and from different ages. Feel free to contact us if interested in purchasing any of them.
European bronze Houfnice (Howitzer), 1450
Bronze Bombardella.
1:5 scale.
A large scale model in an exquisite fine museum quality of a common late medieval (15th Century) bombard (or houfnice, howitzer) mounted on carriage with rayed wheels, a solid two parts wooden gun-carriage with a metal bronze sight to elevate and aim. Also known as "Bombardella" and "Bombardella Borgogna", was "gettata in bronzo, su affusto campale, legate al ceppo con circoli di ferro" so, these artillery pieces were in bronze or in wrought iron in different calibres, ideal to shoot iron or stone projectiles to incoming enemy troops.
Total lenght with carriage 41cm, large 22cm.
Scale 1:5
A detailed and fully functional mechanism with brass-made aiming sight and iron chain to elevate the barrell.
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