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Double-Barreled Wheellock Pistol Made for Emperor Charles V (reigned 1519–56)
Gunsmith Peter Peck (German, Munich, 1503–1596)
Etcher Ambrosius Gemlich
ca. 1540–45
- Medium
- Steel, gold, wood (cherry), staghorn
- Classification
- Firearms-Pistols-Wheellock
- Dimensions
- L. 19 3/8 in. (49.2 cm); L. of upper barrel 10 in. (25.4 cm); L. of lower barrel 7 5/8 in. (19.4 cm); Cal. of each barrel .46 in. (11.7 mm); Wt. 5 lb. 10 oz. (2550 g)
- Culture
- German, Munich
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Arms and Armor
- Credit line
- Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913
- Rights
- Public domain (Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
