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pistol c. 1540–45
Charles V's double-barreled wheel-lock pistol, cherrywood, steel, and stag horn,...
Photograph by Katie Chao. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, gift of William H. Riggs, 1913 (14.25.1425)
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