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WHEELLOCK FIREARMS OF THE ROYAL ARMOURIES

WHEELLOCK FIREARMS OF THE ROYAL ARMOURIES

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AUTHOR: Rimer, G
FORMAT: 64pp col 245x210 Pb
The development of the wheellock mechanism in the early 16th Century enabled firearms to be made that could be carried and fired in one hand. A complex and expensive device in use for two hundred years, wealthy patrons had wheellocks fitted to some of the most highly decorated firearms of the 16th and 17th Centuries. The Royal Armouries contains over 170 wheellock firearms; this book illustrates forty of the very best to explain the earliest forms of this type of ignition mechanism, the technical curiosities it caused and a selection of some of the most highly decorated and finely formed examples of the art of the wheellock gunmakers in Europe.