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    "localId": "6423",
    "label": "Wheel-Lock Holster Pistol",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.444"
}

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    "id": "6423",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.444",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Wheel-Lock Holster Pistol",
    "description": "Gavacciolo was a highly regarded Brescian lockmaker who produced the locks for guns given as diplomatic gifts to King Louis XIII of France by the government of Venice and for others made for the shah of Persia.",
    "provenance": "Clements [date and mode of acquisition unknown];  Henry Griffith Keasbey, New York [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase; Sale, American Art Association, New York, December 5, 1924, no. 140;  Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1924, by purchase;  Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1620-1640",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.444",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
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        "Arms & Armor",
        "wheel locks",
        "pistols"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "18 1/4 in. (46.3 cm)"
}

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    "med": "steel, wood (walnut), silk",
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        "6200"
    ],
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        "ARM"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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