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Description: | An incomplete Post-Medieval (1600-1700) copper-alloy toy pistol, consisting of the lock, a small part of the barrel and part of the stock. The breaks are relatively worn. It measures 53.70x18.04x10.71mm and weighs 26.48g.The outside of the barrel is unevenly faceted and with the lock is hexagonal in cross-section. To the top edge, above the barrel, the three faces are decorated with a wavy line of punched circles. At the break (17.24x8.84mm) the ramrod holder can be seen (4.39mm in diameter) with the circular bore above, 4.43mm in diameter). To one side, between the two, is a smaller hole 3.22mm in diameter at the break. Below the ramrod holder is a hole 3.22mm in diameter and further back an irregular hole 2.09x1.87mm, possibly a casting flaw. Again on the side of the gun, where the barrel joins the stock, is a counter-sunk touch-hole, max.4.2mm in diameter. Directly below is a small rectangular moulding decorated with raised criss-crosses. Also at the join of barrel and stock is a ridge, and below, on the bottom edge of the stock, a conical hole apparently with a screw thread inside. The hole appears as a miniscule dot on the other side of the stock. At the break the stock is oval in cross-section and 6.06x4.52mm.Guns of this type were based on the match-lock 'petronels' of the 16th and 17th centuries, and were fully working models. The moulding in front of the pan represented the mechanism which automatically levered a match into the powder, but on these toys the match would simply have been touched into the pan by hand. Examples are known as early as the late 16th century, but since neither the later wheel-lock nor flint-lock could be made in a working miniature form, they may have continued in popularity long after the full-size match-lock became obsolete.
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