The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of February 13, 2025

Snaphance Gunlock
c.1660–80
Overall: 14 x 7.3 cm (5 1/2 x 2 7/8 in.)
Location: 210C Firearms
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This steel gunlock is its own work of art, chiseled with designs of grotesques, masks, and foliage.Description
The snaphance is a type of lock used for firing a gun. It is a predecessor of the flintlock mechanism.- Gurney Collection-1916Frank Gair Macomber (1849-1941), Boston, MA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art1916-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Christie, Manson & Woods, London. Choice collection of works of art, mostly of the XVth, XVIth and XVIIth centuries. Mar 8-12, 1898. Lot 275. Mentioned: p. 36, lot 275 archive.orgCatalogue of Arms and Armour. Vol. 4, 17th to 19th century and a few pieces of iron work. [Boston, Massachusetts]: [Frank Gair Macomber], [1900-1915]. Mentioned and Reproduced: No. (244) 268 archive.orgGilchrist, Helen Ives. A Catalogue of the Collection of Arms & Armor Presented to the Cleveland Museum of Art by Mr. and Mrs. John Long Severance; 1916-1923. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1924. Mentioned: p. 168, F83 archive.orgFliegel, Stephen N. Arms and Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland, Ohio]: The Museum, 1998. p. 175, cat. no. 232Fliegel, Stephen N. Arms & Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007. p. 194, cat. no. 236
- Armor Court Reinstallation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer).
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1916.41