Hunting Knife Combined with Wheellock Pistol

Ambrosius Gemlich

blade ca. 1528–29, etched with a calendar for the years 1529–34; barrel dated 1540 or 1546

Hunting Knife Combined with Wheellock Pistol by Ambrosius Gemlich

Medium

Steel, gold, staghorn, bronze

Dimensions

L. 18 1/4 in. (46.4 cm); L. of barrel 12 3/8 in. (31.4 cm); L. of blade 13 1/4 in. (33.7 cm); Cal. .28 in. (7.1 mm)

Classification

Combination Weapons

Culture

German, Munich

Department

Arms and Armor

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Rogers Fund, 1904

Accession Number

04.3.158

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