Category: Wheellock
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A Hapsburg Gun
A HAPSBURG GUN There is a particular satisfaction in having in the Museum’s armory an object which belonged to the Archduke Ferdinand of Tyrol (1529-I 595), one of the greatest collectors of all time. His gun (fig. I), a purchase shown this month in the Room of Recent Accessions, is a worthy addition to the…
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An analysis of a double-barreled Wheellock pistol made for Emperor Charles V by the gunsmith Peter Peck.
Lachlan Fahy This firearm is a Double-Barreled Wheellock Pistol made by the German gunsmith Peter Peck on behalf of the holy roman emperor Charles V. The firearm is an exceptional example of an early wheellock pistol and represents the technological advances of the renaissance as well as the power and authority of its owner Charles…
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Arms and Armour
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ANILLUSTRATED HISTORYOFARMS AND ARMOUEFROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THEPRESENT TIME.BY AUGUSTE DEMMIN. WITH NEARLY 2000 ILLUSTRATIONS.TRANSLATED BY C. C. BLACK, M.A..ASSISTANT KEEPER, SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM. “Quum prorepserunt primls anlmalia tenis, Mutum et turpe pecus, glandem atque cubilia propter Unguibus et pugnis, dein fastibus, atque ita porro Pugnabant armis quae post fabiicaverat csus.” Horace, Sat. I.…
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A UNIQUELY ENGRAVED DETACHED WHEEL-LOCK BY VIENNESE MASTER GUN-MAKER CASPAR ZELLNER
Michael Samuels Reprinted from the American Society of Arms Collectors Bulletin 127:33-37Additional articles available at http://americansocietyofarmscollectors.org/resources/articles/ The maker, his creations, and his customers Caspar Zellner was born on 31 December 1661 in Zell am Wallersee, which was situated within the Holy Roman Empire and is just a day’s walk to the northeast of the city…
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Hermann Historica – The Karsten Klingbeil Collection
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ANTIQUE ARMS AND ARMOUR Tuesday December 13, 2011 – 3.00 pm THE KARSTEN KLINGBEIL COLLECTION THOSE WHO HAVE MET KARSTEN KLINGBEIL WILL AGREE THAT HE CAN BE RATED AMONGST THE FOREMOST COLLECTOR PERSONALITIES OF OUR TIMES, ALWAYS PURSUING HIS INTERESTS WITH GREAT VIGOUR AND PASSION. An artist at heart, he nonetheless felt compelled towards a…
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A particular wheellock pistol in Turin
Marco Morin The weapon appears also interesting from a technical point of view since it has aparticularly safety system, used only rarely and, to our knowledge, only on pistols ofGerman origin.
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Accessions – The Wisconsin Magazine of History
Source: The Wisconsin Magazine of History, Vol. 44, No. 3 (Spring, 1961), pp. 232-239Published by: Wisconsin Historical Society Pair of antique Saxon wheellock pistols. These unique specimens, 30 inches in length, bear the marks of Zacharias Herold, court gunsmith at Dresden, 1584-1628, and of the gunsmith, Hans Fleischer, also active for the Saxonian court from…
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About the development of the Brescian wheellock in the last decades of the 16th century
Paolo De Montis Introduction One of Marco Morin’s most important contributions to hoplological literature was certainly his research into the German origin of the wheellock system, research often in conflict withthe studies of another eminent scholar, Claude Blair, according to whom the wheellock system was first created in Italy. The dating of the two sources…
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The Wheellock – Birth of the Combat Pistol
The revolutionary wheellock facilitated the development of increasingly sophisticated pistolson the European battlefield. By William J. McPeak