I visited the Met today and was able to scare impress my fiancé and friends with my wheellock enthusiasm
Wheellocks at the Met
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Scared or impressed?
Well... scared would be if you mortgaged the house and bought a couple of them!
Thanks for sharing!
Well... scared would be if you mortgaged the house and bought a couple of them!
Thanks for sharing!
I go to see the Arms & Armor hall 2-3 times a year and see something new every time. Never disappoints.
The quality of the metalwork and detailed inlays never cease to amaze me.
I only stopped to take photos of a handful of them, but they had some guns with bone work that were almost impossible to comprehend. There is one wheellock that is completely covered in carved bone and I wish I remembered to photo it. Very much high art!
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Been thinking about building one of these before I finally die...
Here are all the pieces!
After seeing it apart.... simple!
William
Here are all the pieces!
After seeing it apart.... simple!
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Yes. Maker is Peter Peck from Munich. Purveyor to Emperor Charles V & Bavarian Duke Albrect V.
1550 or so...
He made quite a few Double barreled wheellocks. He also liked the dual dogs... spin to the other pyrite if one did not work. Different than a separate dog assembly.
William
1550 or so...
He made quite a few Double barreled wheellocks. He also liked the dual dogs... spin to the other pyrite if one did not work. Different than a separate dog assembly.
William
The online collection for the Musée de l'Armée has some great photos of one of his pistols with the two headed dogs, if someone is brave enough to try making one!
One of the only matchlocks in the collection was a petronel, which elicited “i actually kind of like that one” from my fiancée. I made the right decision wanting to marry her!
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John: Thanks so much for posting these photos. The brain to hand skills of some people just amazes me. High art at it's best. Incredible.
Rick
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In our collection we have a piece of bone inlay from a gun that they acquired last year. It’s very cool. Been thinking of adapting it to a flask.
Jay
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here is a less than flattering candid photo of me that shows the bone covered wheellock and then the musuem’s official picture:
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/23197
It would also be great on a patchbox lid! A German wheellock rifle is probably not super relevant to Jamestown, but you guys can probably find an excuse to commission one.
Excuse, yes. Budget?
If you haven’t already watched them, Adam savage (from mythbusters) has a series of videos in the restoration department of the Met, where he discusses various tools and artifacts with the curators.
