Image:Wheellock pistol or 'Puffer'.jpg
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A Wheellock Puffer, Augsburg around 1580. Octagonal then round smooth bore barrel in 12 mm caliber. The Augsburg pyr and orb mark between "AZ" are deeply stamped at the breech. The iron wheel lock with safety has light floral engraving. The flat lock plate has a diamond shaped mark under "HK". Walnut full stock is inlaid with stripes and plates of engraved bone. Pommel, trigger guard, ramrod, and a few inlays are replacements, and the wooden stock has some small restorations. Length 49 cm. For the barrel mark "AZ", see: Stoeckel II, page 1369, No. 1985 and E. Schalkhauser, Handfeuerwaffen des bayerischen Nationalmuseums München (Small Arms of the Bavarian National Museum, Munich) No. 86 & 87. |
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Private collection |
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2005 |
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Photo by Nick Michael |
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| current | 11:01, 22 December 2006 | 600×230 (70 KB) | Nick Michael | ({{flickr| |title=pistol |description=A Wheellock Puffer, Augsburg around 1580. Octagonal then round smooth bore barrel in 12 mm caliber. The Augsburg pyr and orb mark between "AZ" are deeply stamped at the breech. The iron wheel lock with safety has light) |
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| File change date and time | 11:55, 22 December 2006 |
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