Original European Continental Double Barrel Box Lock Percussion Pistol - Circa 1840 Technical Handbooks & Manuals no printer noted

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The side action lock is marked with a Crown over V

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Sadly interest waned once the Civil War concluded making this most interesting forward thinking Repeating Carbine hard to find today

Original European Continental Double Barrel Box Lock Percussion Pistol - Circa 1840 Technical Handbooks & Manuals no printer notedOriginal Item: Only one available. Produced mostly in Belgium this is a LIFE SAVER: a small Double Barrel percussion cap pocket pistol that could easily carried in a coat pocket. In the dank times of Dickensian London and Paris and New York for that matter CRIME was rife! Foot pads and thugs were everywhere. These small, then inexpensive pistols were the rage for self protection. Shipped over to the United States in great quantities who knows how many