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Collection Online as of March 28, 2024

Pair of Wheel-lock Petronels

Pair of Wheel-lock Petronels

c. 1630
Location: 210B Firearms

Did You Know?

These luxury objects were used by wealthy men as sporting weapons.

Description

A petronel was a type of long pistol made with a wheel-lock ignition. Despite its length, the petronel was fired at the wrist like a pistol and not at the shoulder like a rifle. They were generally made in pairs during the early 1600s. Civilian versions were elaborately decorated for aristocratic clients.
  • until 19th century
    Saxon Electoral Armories, Dresden
    before 1947
    F. Theodore Dexter (b. 1885), Topeka, KS
    before 1955
    Robert C. Draper, Freedom, NH
    1955-
    Donald Tuttle, Naugatuck, CT
    1984-
    Eli Whitney Museum of Invention, Whitneyville, CT (donated by Donald Tuttle in 1984; deaccessioned by the museum since they were of foreign and not American manufacture)
    Nov. 20, 1986
    Sale: Christie's, New York (Nov. 20, 1986), lot 403
    Unknown Private Collection
    1996-2000
    Michael Zomber, Culver City, CA, sold to Justin Kohn
    2000-2012
    Justin Kohn, Sausalito, CA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    2012-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 53 no. 02, March/April 2013 Mentioned & reproduced: p. 20 archive.org
  • {{cite web|title=Pair of Wheel-lock Petronels|url=false|author=Georg Kurland|year=c. 1630|access-date=28 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2012.97