Wheellock Firearms of the Royal Armouries
Author:   Graeme Rimer
Publisher:   Trustees of the Royal Armouries
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9780948092480


Pages:   64
Publication Date:   01 September 2001
Format:   Paperback
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This exhibition catalogue highlights forty wheellock firearms from the Royal Armouries collection, representing a selection of some of the most highly decorated and finely formed examples of the art of the wheellock gunmakers in Europe. The development of the wheellock mechanism in the early 16th century enabled firearms to be made that could be carried and held in one hand. This mechanism demanded great skill from gunmakers. It was a complex ad expensive device in use for 200 years, and wealthy patrons had wheellocks fitted to some of the most elegant and highly decorated firearms of the 16th and 17th centuries. The Royal Armouries contains over 170 wheellock firearms and this exhibition highlights 40 of the very best to illustrate the earliest forms of the mechanism, the technical curiosities it caused and a representative selection of some of the most highly decorated and finely formed examples of the art of the wheellock gunmakers in Europe.

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Author:   Graeme Rimer
Publisher:   Trustees of the Royal Armouries
Imprint:   Trustees of the Royal Armouries
ISBN:  

9780948092480


ISBN 10:   0948092483
Pages:   64
Publication Date:   01 September 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Catalogue; Section one - early examples; section two - technically significant pieces; section three - decorated examples; section four - accessories; wheellocks in the Royal Armouries.

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