Tschinki (Wheel-Lock Hunting Rifle), c. 1630-50. Poland, Silesia, 17th century. Steel with traces gilding; walnut stock inlaid with bone, stag horn, mother-of-pearl; 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.). 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.

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Tschinki (Wheel-Lock Hunting Rifle), c. 1630-50. Poland, Silesia, 17th century. Steel with traces gilding; walnut stock inlaid with bone, stag horn, mother-of-pearl; 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.). 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.

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