A Styrian wallgun with snap tinder lock, ca. 1525
The barrel struck with the maker's mark of Peter Hofkircher, Styria.
The lock with part plate of brass, only for the serpentine cock. The blackened full stock of limewood, with the muzzle section of the barrel left unstocked. The ramrod channel drilled a bit out of the middle to avoid contact with the recoil hook.
The whole piece photograped standing upright against a row of matchlock wall pieces of mid 16th to early 16t centruy dates.
Michael
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