Video: Precious weapon. Miniature cannon and crossbow from jeweler T. Shamir
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
"Small, but remote", "small spool, but expensive", and a lot of other proverbs and sayings are circulating among the people about small objects and miniature people. And the miniature art of an Israeli jeweler named T. Shamir also deserves attention, because he creates from silver and gold not just jewelry or figurines, but extremely reduced copies of a fully functional weapons … To date, he has a tiny golden cannon and tiny silver crossbow … Despite the ant's size, this weapon can be quite dangerous, and not only for birds and mice, but also for humans. So, tests have shown that a crossbow made of 925 sterling silver and decorated with 22-carat gold shoots real, but small aluminum arrows with a metal tip, and the trigger force is more than 2.5 kg.
A tiny gold cannon, in turn, really knows how to shoot the same tiny cannonballs that are able to shoot a beer can, chicken egg, apple, window glass or glass mug. The gun comes with a tiny wick and real gunpowder, and the accuracy of the jewelry weapon is such that it can hit the target from a distance of up to five meters.
So far, these products act exclusively as original sculptures, but it is very possible that they are recognized as real, perhaps very small, weapons, and the owners of the figures will be required to register them in the appropriate form.
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