A friend of mine (the same one for whom I did the costume sketches in
http://brassgoggles.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,49610.0.html ) holidayed last year in Italy. He sent me these photos, after I pointed out some of the items in this thread to him. He tells me "the revolving musket and cannon are in the collection of the Doge's Palace, Venice; the others are in the Museo del Castello San Giusto (Museum of Saint Giusto Castle), Trieste, photographed by me." He also said I was welcome to share them here, so here they are, with his comments.
"The blunderbuss is an old flintlock, but with a hook to go into a hole in a wall, or a stagecoach rail: a bit of an eye-opener - imagine it on the door-post of a steam-landau. Can't you just imagine Mexican bandits attacking a train in Texas, only to find each carriage armed with a selection of these? Or air-ships floating about, blasting away at each other and point-blank range?" My comment - well of course I can! I'm on this forum after all!

"The hand cranked revolving musket is a wheel lock (I think - couldn't get close enough to be sure), with a dozen or more independently loaded barrels, rotated with some sort of cranking device. 17th Century ... they were trying hard even then." EDIT: I see this appears at
http://brassgoggles.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,30440.1825.html with some description.

"Hunting rifles ... just ordinary little flintlocks, but beautifully designed to be as ergonomic as possible."

"If bullets don't work .. found this and the hunting rifles in a forgotten castle way up on a Triestine hilltop."

"Over n under ... Trieste again. This and the "if bullets don't work" one are of your bog-standard derringer type; definitely a lady's weapon, and clearly it was expected that ladies are more likely to miss at point blank range and thus needed two shots and a dainty little blade as a back-up to their range of hat-pins. BTW, I don't like the Apache ... apparently a lady was expected to spend valuable time in a fight unfolding the thing, then to use the knuckle dusters she had to mess about reversing it, only to have both the blade AND the five or six-shot chamber pointing straight in her face. Presumably the knuckle-duster was intended as a last resort." - My response to him was "When all else failed the lady could save her honour by using the knuckle-duster on herself." On reflection I'd consider the Apache a weapon for sly attacks, not hasty self defence.

"Revolving cannon 1 & 2: like the hand cranked musket, but with much bigger bullets. The main armament for a dirigible man o'war?"
