IDENTIFIERS
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id:	158337
accession number:	O.31-1879

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 12 May 2021

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Short, crude iron barrel of round section with an integral pan, back sight, slightly flaring muzzle with a moulding at the end of the stock, and bead fore sight. The stock is of dark wood, light and almost full length, with a bone breech cap decorated with double incised lines, a thin, five-sided butt with an iron butt cap, copper alloy side plates, one iron and three copper alloy barrel bands, a crude iron plate at the bottom hiding the trigger mechanism, and an iron tube for the lost vent pricker. At either end of the trigger plate under the stock is a bone inlaid flower formed of four small diamond-shaped inlays. Above these at the sides are two flowers inlaid in bone. An iron ramrod survives, and two crude belt swivels. The lock comprises a solid, d-shaped trigger attached by a simple linkage to a small, damaged serpentine
title:	matchlock carbine

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	Robert Taylor
creditline: Given by Robert Taylor, MA

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/158337





CATEGORIES
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category: weapons

DATING
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creation date:	1760 - 1800
creation date earliest:	1760
creation date latest:	1800
culture:	18th Century, Late

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Barrel Length
units: cm
value: 25.5

dimension: Overall Length
units: cm
value: 72

dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 750



CITATIONS
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List of arms presented to the Fitzwilliam Museum by Robert Tayler, Esq. February 10 1879
An Illustrated Handbook of Indian arms
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