THE FIRST 17TH CENTURY, THE SECOND LATE MEDIEVAL, THE THIRD 18TH/19TH CENTURY
Details
A Three-Barrelled Korean Hand-Gun, A European Lance-Head, And An Indo-Persian War-Hammer Head
The first 17th Century, the second late medieval, the third 18th/19th Century
The first of wrought iron, with short barrels each with touch-hole and short tapering tail (one broken), the latter attaching the barrel block to a tapering socket for a staff, bound together by four barrel bands, the rear barrel band with countersunk pans over the touch-holes (pitted throughout); the second leaf-shaped and of stout flattened diamond section, the aperture in the short socket going up into the base of the blade; the last with narrow curved beak-like fluke formed like a dagger-blade of flattened diamond section, the base shaped, pierced and gold-damascened, cubical damascened socket, and rudimentary hammer formed as a small figure of an elephant
57/8in. (15cm.) to 7¼in. (18.5cm.) (3)
The first 17th Century, the second late medieval, the third 18th/19th Century
The first of wrought iron, with short barrels each with touch-hole and short tapering tail (one broken), the latter attaching the barrel block to a tapering socket for a staff, bound together by four barrel bands, the rear barrel band with countersunk pans over the touch-holes (pitted throughout); the second leaf-shaped and of stout flattened diamond section, the aperture in the short socket going up into the base of the blade; the last with narrow curved beak-like fluke formed like a dagger-blade of flattened diamond section, the base shaped, pierced and gold-damascened, cubical damascened socket, and rudimentary hammer formed as a small figure of an elephant
57/8in. (15cm.) to 7¼in. (18.5cm.) (3)
Provenance
(The first) Gerald Gardner, Wellcome Collection
Literature
(The first) H.L. Blackmore, Firearms, 1964, p. 26
F.J. Wilkinson, Antique Firearms, 1969, p. 332, plate 2, fig. 1
J.L. Needham, Science and Civilisation in China. 5. Chemistry and Chemical Technology. Part 7. Military Technology; The Gunpowder Epic, 1986, p. 332, figs. 112a & b
H.L. Blackmore, 'The Wellcome Collection', Man at Arms, October 1995, p. 38
F.J. Wilkinson, Antique Firearms, 1969, p. 332, plate 2, fig. 1
J.L. Needham, Science and Civilisation in China. 5. Chemistry and Chemical Technology. Part 7. Military Technology; The Gunpowder Epic, 1986, p. 332, figs. 112a & b
H.L. Blackmore, 'The Wellcome Collection', Man at Arms, October 1995, p. 38
Special notice
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