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    "localId": "38421",
    "label": "Wheel-lock Pocket Pistol",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.548"
}

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    "id": "38421",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.548",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Wheel-lock Pocket Pistol",
    "description": "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 Europe and displayed in collections of arms and armor; European firearms, in turn, were imported by the Turks.",
    "provenance": "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.",
    "date": "ca. 1570 (Renaissance)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.548",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "pocket pistols"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "7 11/16 in. (19.6 cm)"
}

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    "med": "steel with gilded copper alloy and turquoise set in silver",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6211"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "ARM",
        "REN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "1994"
    ]
}

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