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Old 22nd May 2010, 03:08 PM   #4
bluelake
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I found this on another site with the caption:
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A flint-style lighting mechanism, most likely a wheelock, as depicted in a Ming firearms manual published in 1638.
Wheelocks were used by the later Qing Dynasty military as well
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