Cylinders
Colt Revolving Rifle Gallery
Matchlock Revolving Musket
Savage Revolving Rifle
North & Savage Percussion Revolving Rifle
MILLER STYLE PERCUSSION REVOLVING RIFLE
Cal. about 46.
Billinghurst type with 24 7/8" stepped rnd bbl, homemade front sight and fixed rear sight. It has the usual 7 shot cylinder converted from pill lock to percussion. It has walnut stock and forearm with German silver forend tip and lightly engraved lockplate, hammer, and tang as well as around the receiver. It has a serpentine brass trigger guard, brass trigger and semi-crescent buttplate. No markings whatsoever are visible and it appears that the area where a name may have been was altered during the period of use, probably to accommodate a rear sight.
Bunge Revolving Rifle
Lindner Patent Revolving Rifle
Morris & Brown Revolving Rifle
William Billinghurst Revolving Rifle
Jean Van Maele Pinfire Revolving Rifle
Holland Marked Pinfire Revolving Carbine
Thomas Newton Revolving Percussion Carbine
Collier Revolving Percussion Shotgun
JAQUITH REVOLVING RIFLE.
CAL. 45. SN: 31.
28-5/8" part oct bbl.
There are no marks on this rifle except the SN. Jaquith’s patent was issued to him 12 July 1838,
one of the earliest revolver patents issued. It carried the number 832. He lived in Brattleboro, Vermont.
The 7-shot cylinder is mounted on top of the frame and the bottom chamber is fired with an underhammer.
Sighting is accomplished through a hole in the center of the cylinder. Only one other revolver was arranged like this in the percussion era
(Thomas Shaw, patent 24 December, 1861). Comes with biographical data on Jaquith and his family.
Pictured in Vermont’s Gunsmiths and Gunmakers, pg 125-126.
Noble & Brady Revolving Rifle
Whittier Revolving Rifle
CAL. 60. SN: 1.
36-1/4" part octagonal smoothbore bbl. Bbls for these rifles came with or without rifling. German silver furniture with elongated engraved trigger guard/grip with two triggers, the rear of which rotates the cylinder , cocks the hammer and the front fires the gun. The top strap & top tang are also lightly engraved with foliate arabesque patterns and the top flat around the sight has matching patterns. The buttplate has an engraved tang with engraved serpentine shaped added tang. The toe plate is 4-1/2" long, very decorative with engraving and a tiny cap box. The right side of the buttstock has an engraved German silver patch box with dbl pointed ends. Zigzag lines on the periphery turn this large 6-shot cylinder. Otis W. Whittier of Enfield, New Hampshire, 30 May 1837, patented this. The patent number was 216, one of the earliest patents on a revolver. Only a few specimens are known, all different. Marked "PATENT" at the rear of the upper tang. The SN appears on the rear sight, the front of the cylinder, the side of the receiver and the bottom of the bbl. The engraving on top of the frame and rear of the bbl similar to that used by the Windsor makers, it was possibly made in that area.
New England Revolving Rifle.
W.B. Fields marked Revolving Percussion Carbine
H. Pieper Revolving Carbine
PANAMANIAN MADE DE LUGO REVOLVING RIFLE.
Cal. 22. SN None visible.
Most unusual little rifle with 19-1/2" rnd bbl, high front sight and
adjustable rear sight. It has an alloy receiver with integral revolving
cylinder that seems to have 21 chambers. The safety is a second trigger
inside the trigger guard which, when pulled to the rear, engages a notch
to prevent the trigger from being pulled. Pulling the knob at the rear
of the receiver, which manually rotates the cylinder, operates it. When
the knob is released it chambers a fresh round and ejects the spent casing
out a slot in the front. Loading is apparently affected by inserting a
live round into the exposed empty chamber. It has a long dark stained uncheckered
forearm and Bedouin style buttstock with wood buttplate that has a cartridge
block in the comb for 30 rnds. CONDITION: Appears to be fine (not knowing
what an original one should look like). Bbl is a silver-gray metal color
mixed with a light patina. Receiver and trigger guard are a light aluminum
color with casting flaws. Wood is sound and retains an even dark finish
that may be an old restoration with minor nicks and dings.
Revolving Rifle,ca1865
Smith & Wesson Experimental Revolving Rifle
Smith & Wesson Revolving Rifle
Leavitt Patent Revolving Rifle
Nichols & Childs Percussion Revolving Rifle
European Revolving Rifle
Cogswell Percussion Revolving Rifle
Remington Revolving Rifles
Halls Patent Revolving Drum Rifle
Deane Adams Revolving Rifle
Roper .41 caliber rifle
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