PISTOL
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- DUAL-BARREL PISTOL 410 GAUGE
- Date Range From
- 1850
- Date Range To
- 1880
- Materials
- STEEL, WOOD
- Catalogue Number
- P19990095005
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- DUAL-BARREL PISTOL 410 GAUGE
- Date Range From
- 1850
- Date Range To
- 1880
- Materials
- STEEL, WOOD
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Height
- 14
- Length
- 36
- Width
- 3.5
- Description
- TWO BARRELED PISTOL FEATURES TOP BREAK LOAD AND DUAL HAMMERS. METALWORK IS BLUED, BUT SHOWS SOME WEAR. METAL KNOB RELEASING TOP BREAK STAMPED WITH ARROW AND "AB" MARKING. NUMEROUS MARKINGS HIDDEN UNDERSIDE BARREL (REMOVE SCREW) INCLUDE "410-50" AND "104".
- Subjects
- ARMAMENT-FIREARM
- Historical Association
- LEISURE
- History
- COLLECTION ORIGINALLY OWNED BY DONOR'S HUSBAND JOHN WIELER. WIELER COLLECTED FIREARMS THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE TIME. HE WAS BORN 20 APRIL 1926 IN RUSSIA, EMIGRATING WITH HIS PARENTS WHEN HE WAS 6 WEEKS OLD. THE FAMILY SETTLED IN WINNEPEG WHERE JOHN REMAINED UNTIL THE AGE OF 16, WHEN HE LEFT HOME FOR B.C.. HE SHOT HIS FIRST RABBIT AT AGE 11 AND LOVED CAMPING, HUNTING AND FISHING. PRIOR TO 1971, JOHN CAME TO THE COALDALE, TABER AREA WHERE HE MET HIS WIFE MARGARET. HE WAS COMMUNITY MINDED, VOLUNTEERING HIS TIME WITH THE ELKS, MASONS, KNOX UNITED CHURCH AND SCOUTS IN TABER. AS A SCOUT LEADER, HE WAS A HUNTING INSTRUCTOR. HIS GREATEST PRIDES WERE HIS FIREARM AND ARROWHEAD COLLECTIONS. HE DIED 19 JANUARY 1985.
- Catalogue Number
- P19990095005
- Acquisition Date
- 2000-11
- Collection
- Museum
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