17th Century Puzzle - Ethnographic Arms & Armour

22nd May 2010, 03:08 PM

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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