Пистоль с колесцовым замком. Европа. 16 век. фото 22-01

THE PROPERTY OF A GERMAN NOBLE FAMILY A RARE SOUTH GERMAN MINIATURE WHEEL-LOCK PISTOL IN THE MANNER OF MICHEL MANN OF AUGSBURG AND NUREMBURG, LATE 16TH CENTURY with blued two-stage barrel, blued flat lock applied with a pierced gilt-brass scrolling plaque, fitted with internal wheel with blued domed cover, engraved gilt-brass pan with sliding cover, moulded dog with blued spring, gilt-brass full stock engraved with scrolling foliage, scrolling butt, and gilt-brass trigger-guard (one screw, the suspension loop and ramrod missing) 5.5cm; 2 1/8in A very similar example is preserved in the Bayersichen Nationalmuseum, Munich inv.nr. W1569. See E. Schalkhauser 1988, pp.119-120. Michel Mann was born in Augsburg and trained in Nuremberg. He became master in Augsburg and worked near Nuremburg where he died in 1630. He is recorded as a 'kunst schlosser' who made 'little iron caskets,......and also little iron guns and pistols that were....etched and gilded'.