content_output-076_7 (Q6603)
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The development of the matchlock is shown in the following illustrations, all taken from German MSS. of 1460-80, now in the Royal University Library at Erlangen. The pointed protuberance at the muzzle is, of course, the sight, the corresponding jagged disc at the breech of the middle gun of the group may be a back-sight, or simply points upon which to fasten the prepared tow which served as a slow-match; more probably the former, since in the third figure the disc to
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