- a stock,
being fired individually by
means of a match.
Around 1790,
pepperboxes were
built on the
basis of
flintlock systems,
notably by Nock in England...
- ratcheting/rotating
striker that in turn
strikes one
firing pin at a time.
Older "
pepperboxes" also used
multiple barrels, but the
barrels were the
parts that rotated...
- in the
Armouries of the
Tower of London, in
contrast to the
earlier pepperboxes which were multi-barreled guns. Collier's
revolver was not self rotating...
-
manufacturing company called "C.
Sharps & Co."
which produced four-barrel
pepperboxes, and
later renamed "Sharps & Hankins", in
partnership with
William Hankins...
- a stock,
being fired individually by
means of a match.
Around 1790,
pepperboxes were
built on the
basis of
flintlock systems,
notably by Nock in England...
- West were the
Sharps deringers. They are four-barrel, single-action
pepperboxes with
revolving firing pins. They come in .22, .30 and .32 rimfire, and...
-
dangerous to the shooter.
Holding several patents,
Allen and
Thurber pepperboxes were the most po****r multi-shot
pistols of the 1830s and 1840s, slowly...
- ratcheting/rotating
striker that in turn
strikes one
firing pin at a time.
Older "
pepperboxes" also used
multiple barrels, but the
barrels were the part that rotated...
- case was
resolved with a
settlement of $15,000.
Production of
Allen pepperboxes continued until the
expiration of Colt's
patent during 1857.
During 1854...
- four
hundred dollars worth of Allen's
revolving six
shooter pistols (
pepperboxes).
William Hickman remembered in a
memoir that
there were four artillery...
