Small Antique Guns Make Big Impact at Metal Museum

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The first exhibition in the city related to the 2011 Memphis in May International Festival honoring Belgium may be small, but it's no flash in the pan.

Ha-ha, that's a joke, because the show, "Antique Guns from the Collection of the Lige Arms Museum," at the National Ornamental Metal Museum through June 19, includes several flintlock pistols, which propelled their shot by means of a spark that ignited a bit of gunpowder poured into a small "pan"; if the gunpowder produced a flame without sending the shot through the barrel, that "flash in the pan" was a distinct let-down - and a disaster if you were facing a duelist - hence the present meaning of that phrase, "something that gets off to a brilliant start but doesn't produce the expected result."

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Small Antique Guns Make Big Impact at Metal Museum

Any exhibition at the Ornamental Metal Museum concerns the craft and art of metalwork, so it's not surprising that the 10 objects in the sho...

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