Iron pipe wooden holder with fork strange quasi divine gun

[Iron pipe wooden holder with fork and strange quasi divine gun]

Qianlong strange quasi divine gun, Qing Qianlong, with a total length of 203 cm, a barrel length of 155.6 cm, and a caliber of 17 mm. The old collection of the Qing Palace
The front is equipped with a smooth bore, and the muzzle is decorated with gold and banana leaf patterns. The front of the barrel is ridged, with four central ribs, and the back of the barrel is rounded. A collimator and a light door are placed. The part of the cylinder is decorated with a gold pattern. The catalpa wood gun bed has holes in the front end to store a staff, and a birch double fork is placed underneath. It is a stable shooting gun bracket. The bed end is inlaid with a carved cloud pattern white jade holder. The inscription reads: “The miraculous quasi divine gun is four feet and five inches long, weighs nine kilograms and two taels, costs two yuan for medicine, and costs five yuan for children.”
This gun is a firerope gun, one of the guns used by Emperor Qianlong. Emperor Qianlong often used this type of gun for hunting, and many of the lead pellets used still exist today. According to the records of the Qing Dynasty, “On the 30th of July in the 32nd year of Qianlong’s reign, when fighting tigers in the Rehe Palace, he spent one quasi divine gun, lead, and four cents in weight.” The “Qing Huidian” listed the strange quasi divine gun as a “special second gun.”