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Description: | The iron barrel and body of a 'Percussion Pocket Pistol'. Kindly identified by Mr. Mark Murray-Flutter of the Royal Armouries Museum. The barrel is 120mm long and 14mm wide. The handle, now missing due to decay, may have been wood, bone or ebony, sometimes with elaborate decoration. A circular turn-off barrel, the barrel would have unscrewed using a wrench to allow gunpowder to be loaded.Mark dates this type of pistol to 1820 - 1840 and notes that they were common as a self-defense tool, as an organised police force was not created until 1846. Manufactured in both Belgium and Birmingham, Birmingham is the likely point of manufacture of this model. A manufacturers mark would usually have been stamped on the barrel, but is now not visible due to corrosion.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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