Lot Essay
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LATE 16TH/EARLY 17TH CENTURY
Details
Five English Bronze Toy Firearms
Late 16th/early 17th Century
The first in the form of a pistol (incomplete), the remainder in the form of muskets, one inscribed 'Bury St. Edmund' (one fragmentary)
1½in. (3.8cm.) to 6¼in. (15.8cm.) (5)
Late 16th/early 17th Century
The first in the form of a pistol (incomplete), the remainder in the form of muskets, one inscribed 'Bury St. Edmund' (one fragmentary)
1½in. (3.8cm.) to 6¼in. (15.8cm.) (5)
Literature
Three of the muskets are illustrated in 'Elizabethan Toy Guns', plate 2
Special notice
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