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Lot # 1044
IRON HOWITZER PROJECTILES
Reinassence, 16th - 17th century.
Lot of fourteen (14) iron projectile probably for a falkonet howitzer.
ca. 480 g. each one x 51 mm. wide.
FE. One of the falkonet's illustrious victims was Commander Giovanni dalle Bande Nere, wounded in the thigh during a battle against the landsknechts near Governolo and died of gangrene a few days after the amputation of the limb.