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Description: | A near complete cast copper alloy toy pistol of post medieval date (1620-1640). The pistol is complete and is irregular in plan and profile. The stock, barrel, ramrod pipe and pan have been cast in one piece and there are four holes in the stock: three for the lock mechanism and one for the ramrod (both now missing). The barrel is seven sided / heptagonal / faceted and extends into an ornately shaped irregular stock. The stock is broadly rectangular in plan and in cross section; it tapers from the junction with the barrel and then flares to form the lower stock terminating in an octagonal fluted ovoid pommel. The vent / touch-hole consists of an integrally cast rectangular projection with a recess (concave depression) on its upper edge. Aligned with this depression is a drilled hole though to the interior of the barrel to allow the charge to be discharged. On the lower edge of the barrel, at the muzzle end is a integrally cast and pierced D shaped loop; this would have help the ram rod which would have been kept safe beneath the barrel - the tip of the ramrod (now lost) would have been held by another hole in the stock. The exterior surface of the barrel is decorated with cast and incised designs. The design is only applied to the upper edge and consists of a series of S shaped curves formed from punched annulets. At the mid-point of the barrel this pattern is interrupted by two circumferential bands of incised lines - presumably echoing straps to fix the stock seen on life size guns. The gun is a mid brownish yellow colour (dull brass colour) with patches of mid green patina present, the muzzle has slight areas of active corrosion -specifically on the internal edge. The gun is broadly unworn and unabraded - which fits with the find being made in garden soils.A number of pistols have been published from London in Toys Trifles and Trinkets and this example from Weobley fits well with Forsyth and Egan's Type 1 dated 1620-1640. These toy pistols were probably based on the so-called lemon-butted pistols which date from 1610-1630 (pp 88-104)The toy measures 121.8mm length, 16.2mm width across breech and pan, 8.5mm width across muzzle and 10.6mm width across butt; it is 16.6mm thick across stock and barrel is 23.5mm. It weighs 58.93 grams. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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