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slow-match from the other.) The next figure represents a pistol battle-axe in the Dresden Museum; dotted lines show the position of the touch-hole. For use as a firearm the grip of the axe had to be reversed, and it was grasped near the head; later pistols had the axe-head fixed upon the muzzle end of the barrel. The two weapons here illustrated are both of fifteenth century manufacture.