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Description: | Fragment of copper alloy 17th century toy musket, with 'sawn off' (or broken?) stock. This break is old and worn while the break on the trigger guard (the butt is missing) and handle is more recent.The fragment has three wavy lines of punched dots along the barrel flat, all waving together and in the same direction. The trigger guard is decorated with ring-and-dot (to imitate the ivory and mother of pearl decoration on full-size muskets), while the remains of the stock are plain. This suggests it is of Egan and Forsyth's Type 2 or 3 (Toys, Trifles and Trinkets, Museum of London 2005).The fragment has a circular pan for loading priming powder and a square bulge, common to these toys, which may have served as some kind of hold for the match (Egan & Forsyth page 89).Measures (incomplete)32.4x15.1mm(max) and weighs 8.62g.1600-1640.These toy muskets have a hollow barrel and, rather alarmingly, would have been loaded with shot and powder and used in play!
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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