490882 Tschinki, wheel-lock hunting rifle, c.1630-50 (steel, walnut, bone, antler & mother-of-pearl) by Polish School, (17th century); 122.9x9.6 cm; Cleveland Museum of Art, OH, USA; (add.info.: This type of hunting gun owes its name to the town of Teschen in Silesia (now southern Poland) which, as early as 1580, was already associated with a particular type of gun. The precise date of the invention of the Tschinki is unknown, though a dated example of 1610 survives in the Imperial Armouries in Vienna. ); Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance; Polish, out of copyright.