File:Japanese Arquebus and Bali Long Gun.jpg

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English: Cropped image showing 2 weapons:
1. Matchlock. 4 ft. 5 in. long, barrel 3 ft. 3 in., diameter of little finger. Silver-gilt pattern of dragon, floral decorations engraved on it. Name and crest of Daimio, tho whose retainer it belonged, also engraved on it. Butt of light-coloured wood. (Brought from japan by Reginald Cholmondeley, Esq.)
2. Long Gun. Barrel 5 ft. 4 in. long, with short stock, 11 in., with Malay, Indian, and Chinese ornaments, made probably at Bali, with Javanese inscription on brass spring of the trigger. (Guthrie Collection)

Uploader note: The upper gun is Japanese tanegashima arquebus (135 cm long), while the lower gun is Balinese istinggar (190.5 cm long).
Date Original: 1896. Cropped by uploader in 2020.
Source The Right Hon. Lord Egerton of Tatton, M. A. . (1896). A Description Of Indian And Oriental Armour, Illustrated From the Collection Formerly in the India Office, now Exhitibted at South Kensington, and the Author's Private Collection. London: W. H. Allen & Co..
Author Wilbraham Egerton (Earl Egerton), Lord Egerton of Tatton
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