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Lot 102

An English Toy Pistol
Mid-Late 17th Century

24 November 2010, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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An English Toy Pistol
Mid-Late 17th Century

Of bronze and in the form of a matchlock pistol with incised decoration along the barrel, painted inventory number opposite the lock, and with lemon-shaped pommel (firing mechanism missing)
12.3 cm.

Footnotes

A number of similar pieces, excavated in London, are preserved in the Guidhall and London Museums. For a discussion of such miniature firearms see H.L. Blackmore, 'Elizabethan Toy Guns', The Sixth Park Lane Arms Fair, 1989, pp. 10-14

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