genesis - roots wchellock

[dyemaker]

A matchlock pistol similar in appearance...
http://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/fusionbb/showtopic.php?tid/204733/tp/3/

 

[raszpla]

weapons for children is an interesting chapter.
weapon for a child - a little boy, was built in a variety of options ( matchlock, wheellock , flintlock etc. ) :hatsoff:

 

[DickS]

The Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto has a couple of the little toy matchlock - wheelock styled - pistols. Recovered from the Thames. I wonder if some father tossed them in the river.....

 

[raszpla]

Nasz kolega z Argentyny kupił iberyjski mechanizm wheellock

http://i49.tinypic.com/2n6rrzs.jpg
http://i46.tinypic.com/qspate.jpg

 

[raszpla]

http://www.peterfiner.com/assets/Uploads/1755.jpg The wheel-lock rifle depicted dating from the mid 1520’s to the mid 1530’s is the earliest known superimposed-load wheel-lock fire-arm and was in the collection of the Museum Carolino Augusteum, Salzburg. The shield painted on the stock is charged with the Arms of Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg (1468-1540) adviser to the Emperor’s Frederick III and Maximilian I and later Cardinal (1511) and Prince Archbishop of Salzburg (1519).
http://www.peterfiner.com/current-stock/item/1755/