Medieval blacksmith tools from Szczecin NM

Salve,
yesterday I posted images from the Old Town Hall of the Szczecin National Museum.
Today I would like to add some more images of the blacksmith craft & tools  uncovered during the post-1945 archaeological  digs done in and around Szczecin. They are medieval and early modern tools & products, of the very period in the Polish and German Baltic lands when the Pomeranian dukes ruled the south-western coast of the Baltic Sea, and their cities and towns were part of the Hanseatic League.

Enjoy
ps
perhaps tomorrow some medieval stirrups and spurs, and horseshoes from the same museum.

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth riders in de Bruyn's album - part III

Salve,
almost 15 years ago Richard Brzezinski published his two, now legendary, Osprey Publishing volumes dedicated to the armies of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Volume two included an  overview of the so called Foreign Autorament where Western or German-dressed units were grouped. De Bruyn's engravings belong to Bathory's reign and foreign autorament of the Commonwealth army was reformed under king Władyslaw IV, but German-style cavalry was already  present during our Hungarian king reign.
Here it is worth noting that during Bathory's reign Ducal Prussia was firmly within the Polish control and being an integral part of the Commonwealth provided troops and volunteers for the Commonwealth cavalry and infantry units, along with Duchy of Pomerania and Silesia etc. By the way one of the most famous Renaissance Polish commanders, cavalry foray master, known as Terror Tartarorum Bernard Pretwicz came to Polish Kingdom from Sliesia.
  Royal City of Gdańsk and Royal Prussia, and Upper Silesia also provided German-looking units for the Polish Crown while Livonia, Kurland and northern parts of Grand Duchy of Lithuania also provided German amred and often dressed units.

Here are de Bruyn's German horsemen - and it  seems to me that he was much more familiar with the subject.   Note muzzles and heavy bits, double reins, docked tails and heavier horses than previous two parts' plates.

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Michal 'Kadrinazi' blogs often about the reiter and dragoon units in the Commonwealth armies, sharing his research about these often forgotten units of Old Poland.