Help Identify a pistol

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ttowtime

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This gun is a new one on me. It seems to be a rimfire probably 5mm, a 22 won't fit in it. a small lever on the right is the drop block mechanisim. The only marking looks to be hand stamped 275 under the barrel, has double set triggers, and adjustable elevation rear sight. Any help in IDing this would be apreaciated.
Capt. Tim
 

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It appears to be a Flobert "Parlor Pistol".
These were used in the 1800's and early 1900's for target practice in the living room.
They fired very low power ammunition that was powered by the primer, and often had no powder at all.

These were made in the many thousands in Europe in quality ranging from rather crude to some very fine quality guns. There were many makers and many were not marked.
 
all you can do is send some photographs and metric dimensions to the gentleman who runs the horstheld website. hes well known with old obscure guns.
not likely to be easily identified but going by everything, its not in the crude/crap category.
 
If you look further down the TFL forums, in The Skunkworks, you'll find Harley Nolden's Institute. The guys in that forum specialize in identifying obscure weapons, so you might try there.
 
I don't think it is a true Flobert, since it appears to have a breechblock separate from the hammer. It is probably not rimfire, but a 4mm center fire, but it would take close up pictures or better information to determine that.

If ttowtime can provide information/pictures on any markings we should be able to tell the country of origin, but probably not the maker since many of those pistols had no maker's name on them.

Jim
 
It is what they called the "rolling block" Flobert, not to be confused with the much stronger Remington Rolling Block.
The "plain" Flobert has nothing but a heavy hammer whacking the rimfire case and depending on its mass and the mainspring to keep it from blowing out the head.
There are a lot of Warnant Action Floberts in the country, with kind of a trapdoor action; again nothing like as stout as a Trapdoor Springfield.
The rolling block is in between but less common; at least it shows up much less on the gunboards.
 
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