Hollow wooden tube, part of a pattern mold with matching wooden pattern block

Hollow wooden tube, part of a cartridge mold with matching wooden cartridge mold. Description NM-7769-1 and NM-7769-2. The mold was used to make a paper cartridge in which the gunpowder charge and bullet for one shot could be prepared. Gunpowder and bullet were fixed by means of a thread. To load his firearm, the shooter only had to bite off the bottom of the cartridge and ram the cartridge with the bullet into the barrel of his weapon. The military musket was not loaded with such care in battle; the bullet went loose in the barrel, possibly wrapped in a cloth or a piece of paper. If one wanted to hit a target at some distance, careful loading was necessary, hence the probable presence of this device in the Behouden Huys.