Accession No
1901.197
Description
Cast copper-alloy toy of a matchlock pistol. The barrel is facetted with a decoration of punched wavy lines as well as two pairs of two transversally incised parallel lines on each of the three top facets and has a hollow bore with a touch-hole. The pistol widens towards the butt, which bends downwards at approximately 40 degrees with a flared stock and square guard.
Place
Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Cambridge
Period
Post Medieval
Source
Cambridge Antiquarian Society [monetary donor]; Freeman, Samuel J. [collector]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1901.197; MAA: AR 1901.248
Cultural Affliation
Material
Metal; Copper alloy; ?Bronze
Local Term
Measurements
86mm
Events
Context (Display)
Previously mounted on plain paper-wrapped display board, now broken off and upper part missing, with handwritten label reading in black ink: 'Toy gun (bronze). Cambridge. (Freeman Coll.) *Camb. Ant. Soc. A.01.197' and on back on a handwritten paper label, reading in black ink: '1901.197 Cambridge. C.A.S. [crossed out:] Purchased'.
Event Date
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung
Context (Field collection)
Collected by: Freeman.S.J
Event Date
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
Toy Gun
Event Date
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
Accession Register: 'Small bronze model of a matchlock gun.'
Event Date 1901
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Description (Physical description)
Cast copper-alloy toy of a matchlock pistol. The barrel is facetted with a decoration of punched wavy lines as well as two pairs of two transversally incised parallel lines on each of the three top facets and has a hollow bore with a touch-hole. The pistol widens towards the butt, which bends downwards at approximately 40 degrees with a flared stock and square guard.
Event Date 13/12/2023
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung
FM:19488
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