Pistol, snaphance

Description

One of a pair of iron pistols with lobe-shaped butts and late snaphance locks, signed TB on the lock plate, possibly for Thomas Bruce, dagmaker, burgess, Edinburgh, dated 1650 on the circualr fence

Museum reference

H.LH 296

Collection

Weapons and Accessories

Object name

Pistol, snaphance

Production information

Bruce, Thomas, 1632 - 1650 (fl.), Manufacturer
Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, Northern Europe

Date

1650

Materials

Iron

Physical description

Iron

Associations

Whitelaw Bequest
Saltmarket, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, Northern Europe