Tales from Te Papa Episode 62: Musket - Flash In The Pan

Flintlock musket, circa 1820, England. Ketland & Company. Purchased 2000 with New Zealand Lottery Grants Board funds. Te Papa

Michael Fitzgerald shows us the type of weapon that generated the expression 'a flash in the pan.'

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Is part of topic Tales from Te Papa: History collection episodes