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  2. Denver Museum of Miniatures, Dolls and Toys - Wikipedia

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    The Denver Museum of Miniatures, Dolls and Toys is a private, non-profit museum that is located in Lakewood, Colorado. The museum was founded in 1981. In 1987, the museum opened at its first location in cooperation with the Colorado Historical Society within the Pearce-McAllister Cottage. The collection of the museum includes more than 20,000 ...

  3. Modelguns - Wikipedia

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    Modelguns are Japanese replica or toy guns, which are usually made of zinc alloys or plastic materials. Most modelguns commonly available today are designed to highly replicate the physical appearance (some bear the authentic trademarks and markings too) and in full scale of the real gun counterpart. Many are even made to highly replicate the ...

  4. Toy gun - Wikipedia

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    Pop Gun, 2009. Toy guns are toys which imitate real guns, but are designed for recreational sport or casual play by children. From hand-carved wooden replicas to factory-produced pop guns and cap guns, toy guns come in all sizes, prices and materials such as wood, metal, plastic or any combination thereof.

  5. Queen Mary's Dolls' House - Wikipedia

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    Queen Mary's Dolls' house. Queen Mary's Dolls' House is a doll's house built in the early 1920s, completed in 1924, for Queen Mary, the wife of King George V.It was designed by architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, with contributions from many notable artists and craftsmen of the period, including a library of miniature books containing original stories written by authors including Sir Arthur Conan ...

  6. List of firearms before the 20th century - Wikipedia

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    Abus gun ( Ottomans - Howitzer) Agar machine gun ( US - Machine Gun - 1861) Allen & Thurber Single-Shot ( US - Pistol - 1848) Allen & Wheelock Drop Breech ( US - Rifle - 1860) Apache revolver (Belgium - Revolver - c.1869) Arisaka Type 30 rifle (Empire of Japan - Rifle - 1897/1899) Arquebus ( Dutch - 15th Century)

  7. Hand cannon - Wikipedia

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    The Tannenberg handgonne is a cast bronze firearm. Muzzle bore 15–16 mm. Found in the water well of the 1399 destroyed Tannenberg castle. Oldest surviving firearm from Germany. Hand cannon being fired from a stand, Bellifortis manuscript, by Konrad Kyeser, 1405.

  8. Mitrailleuse - Wikipedia

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    3,400 metres (3,700 yd) A mitrailleuse ( French pronunciation: [mitʁajøz]; from French mitraille, "grapeshot") is a type of volley gun with barrels of rifle calibre that can fire either all rounds at once or in rapid succession. The earliest true mitrailleuse was invented in 1851 by Belgian Army captain Fafschamps, ten years before the advent ...

  9. Blunderbuss - Wikipedia

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    Blunderbuss. A flintlock blunderbuss, built for Tipu Sultan [1] The blunderbuss is a 17th- to mid-19th-century firearm with a short, large caliber barrel which is commonly flared at the muzzle, to help aid in the loading of shot and other projectiles of relevant quantity or caliber. The blunderbuss is commonly considered to be an early ...