# Target gun used by the Guild of Arquebusiers in Amsterdam

- By: Jacobus Jaspers
- Date: 1675 - 1699
- Medium: iron (metal), copper (metal), gilding (material), wood (plant material), mother of pearl, horn (animal material), brass (alloy)
- Classification: target rifle
- Dimensions: diameter 10.9 mm
- Credit line: Purchased from the H.L. Visser Collection, with the support of the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, the Ministerie van OCenW, the Ministerie van Defensie, the VSBfonds, the BankGiro Lottery and the Rijksmuseum Fonds
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/NG-2002-23-14--858c1232f03c2b399579db6989bed682)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/lpqDE/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

The support stand on this target gun is in the form of a taloned eagle’s claw grasping a ball, a reference to the Guild of Arquebusiers in Amsterdam. Civic guardsmen would grasp the support with their left hand, while pressing their left elbow into their side. The gun has a tinder lock, which uses a piece of smouldering dried fungus, rather than a slow match, to ignite the powder.