Light the blue touch paper and retire for 350 years…
Sold at $26,000 (£15,570) as part of the $3.82m (£2.28m) sale of the H.P. Kraus inventory held by Sotheby’s New York on December 4 and 5 was a lavishly illustrated manuscript of 1661 dealing with fireworks, ballistic design and construction.
The work of an Augsburg gunsmith and firework maker, Daniel Kramer, the manuscript, bound in contemp…