PISTOL
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- SINGLE SHOT CARTRIDGE PISTOL
- Date Range From
- 1860
- Date Range To
- 1880
- Materials
- STEEL, WOOD
- Catalogue Number
- P19990095008
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- SINGLE SHOT CARTRIDGE PISTOL
- Date Range From
- 1860
- Date Range To
- 1880
- Materials
- STEEL, WOOD
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Height
- 12
- Length
- 18
- Width
- 2
- Description
- PISTOL FEATURES TOP BREAK LOAD WITH LEVER RELEASE ON LEFT SIDE. LANYARD RING BELOW WOOD GRIPS. STEEL FINISH 97% WORN. RECEIVER MARKED "2132" ON RIGHT SIDE. FIREARMS TECHNICIANS GUESSED IT WAS HANDMADE (?). BARREL IS OCTAGONAL AT RECEIVER BUT TAPERS TO CYLINDER SHAPE.
- 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
- P19990095008
- Acquisition Date
- 2000-11
- Collection
- Museum
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