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Among the guns on display was a beautifully decorated revolver with an elaborate art nouveau-style silver grip, the result of a collaboration between S and jeweler Tiffany & Co. — it was made for the 1893 Columbian exhibition in Chicago. This revolver and others like it marked a departure for S, which usually used its own in-house engravers.
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Ottoman flintlock blunderbuss (smooth-bore gun with a funnel shaped muzzle).There are blunderbuss pistols, short and long muskets, some were swivel mounted. Blunderbuss is an anglicized version of the early Dutch Donderbuss or German Donner büchse ("thunder gun"). Blunderbusses were loaded with lead shot, not rocks or scrap. The flared muzzle does not cause the shot to disperse, but aids in the loading of shot into the barrel as when on a moving ship, horse or coach, 49 and 52 cm long, 19th ...