!!!Endörfer, Jörg

b. around 1450, d. Innsbruck (Tyrol), between Feb. 28 and Oct. 
16, 1508, from 1479 gunsmith in the service of Archduke Sigmund and 
Emperor Maximilian I; foundry located in Hoetting. One of the first 
arms casters in Central Europe, one of his rifles has survived ("Die 
alt Kattl", made in 1494, now in the Musee de l´Armee in Paris).

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