Tschinki (Wheel-Lock Hunting Rifle)
1630–1650
- Medium
- steel with traces gilding; walnut stock inlaid with bone, stag horn, mother-of-pearl
- Dimensions
- Overall: 122.9 cm (48 3/8 in.); Butt: 9.6 cm (3 3/4 in.); Barrel: 94.9 cm (37 3/8 in.); Bore: 1.3 cm (1/2 in.)
- Genre
- arms and armor
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
About
This type of hunting gun owes its name to the town of Teschen in Silesia (now southern Poland) which, as early as 1580, was already associated with a particular type of gun. The precise date of the invention of the Tschinke is unknown, though a dated example of 1610 survives in the Imperial Armouries in Vienna.