Wheel chair, Western European type, possibly Swedish manufacture ca. 1610-1615.

Round, smooth-bore barrel with eight-sided chamber, ring at the transition. At the barrel base three backwards increasingly powerful rings, rectangular, curved tail screw blade. In front of the rings a rectangular, indistinct stamp with two rings. Fortress: Three booklets, the two rear damaged. The barrel is attached with a screw from below and a wooden barrel. Wheel lock of German type with flat locking plate, rear ring for screw. Behind the wheel a stamp in the form of a hammer (LRK wall.1921: 377: 1). External wheel attached with ring and screw at. 3 and 9. Prison boiler with slightly curved outer edge, straight gunscreen, jailer boiler lid with movable arm, front edge finger grip. Pressure button with arched head. Male with forward widened, four-sided body with square discs, four-sided neck. Rectangular jaws, lower jaw loose, jaw screw with four sided head with pointed upper end. Male feather with bevelled edges at the front, at the back of the leaf, balusteroform stud, long feather leaf with end in the shape of three angular plates and a small tip. Attachment: Two locking screws and a screw through the rear tip from h.sida. Curved trigger Dark brown whole stock with a straight flask (birch?), at the rear extended to lace optic flask of the fishtail type with steel edge band, b: 11 mm. Two locking screw washers of legs. Band shaped tubular and steel noseband. Straight-shaped creature with a four-sided rear post, the barrel inside the piston, the front post attached by screw.

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Europeana

Title

Wheel chair, Western European type, possibly Swedish manufacture ca. 1610-1615.

Object Type

wheel chair

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