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Single shot, flintlock, rifled, .58 caliber, blued steel, Versailles, 1794–1797. Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto. A duelling pistol is a type of pistol that was manufactured in matching pairs to be used in a duel, when duels were customary. Duelling pistols are often single-shot flintlock or percussion black-powder pistols which fire a lead ...
Thomas Ketland Senior, was a highly successful Birmingham gun maker. He started his business around 1760 and expanded into the export market around 1790. He died in 1816. The business carried on until bankruptcy in 1821. The company manufactured flintlock pistols, becoming quite successful in its field. W. Ketland was Thomas Ketland Sr's eldest ...
A Wogdon & Barton target pistol c.1801-3, with its case and accessories. Owned by Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number:37.154.3a–g [1] Wogdon & Barton dueling pistols. Wogdon & Barton (founded by Robert Wogdon) was an 18th-century firm of gunsmiths based in London, England.
Two flintlock Gossard pistols once owned by French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte have sold at auction for €1.69 million ($1.83 million). The guns were sold at French auction house Osenat in ...
Remington Naval Model 1865 Pistol (USA – pistol – 1866) Remington-Beals Pocket Revolver (USA – revolver) 1st Model: 1853; 2nd Model: 1858; 3rd Model: 1859; Remington Rider Single Shot Pistol (USA – pistol – 1860) Remington Rolling Block rifle (USA – rifle – 1860s) Remington Zig-Zag Derringer (USA – pistol – 1861)
Semi-automatic pistol Austria-Hungary: 300,000 Pistolet modèle An XIII: Flintlock pistol France: 300,000 MAS-49: Semi-automatic rifle 295,840 Chauchat: Light machine gun 262,000 Heckler & Koch G36: Assault rifle Germany: 260,000+ 500,000+ [169] TEC-9: Semi-automatic pistol United States: 257,434 Colt Model 1851 Navy: Revolver United States ...
Pistols and revolvers. Agrafa flintlock pistol [1] (Greek made) Chamelot-Delvigne M1873, M1874 and M1884 revolver (French made) Ktoros M1837 caplock pistol [2] (Greek made) Mylonas Pistol M1877 (Greek made) Lefaucheux M1854 revolver (French made) Nagant M1895 revolver (Belgian made) Rifles and muskets. Berthier M1892 carbine (French made)
Queen Anne pistols are a type of breech-loading flintlock pistol known as a turn-off pistol, in which the chamber is filled from the front and accessed by unscrewing the barrel. Another distinguishing feature of the design is that the lock-plate and the breech section (chamber) of the firearm are forged as a single piece.