Wheel-lock Pocket Pistol

ca. 1570 (Renaissance) 7 11/16 in. (19.6 cm) Citation Source image

This pistol, studded with turquoise in the Turkish style, could have been made either for a European client or for the Turkish market. In either case, it would have had an exotic quality for a European collector. Turkish swords with blades of Damascus steel were famous in Euro...

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S. H. Austin, New York [no. 571]; Harding, 1917 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1917 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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