Multi cylinder BP pistol.

[santacaferacer]

Don't know the history of this real piece but sure is funky. Wonder if it worked.
Couldn't holster it though!

 

[Rifleman1776]

Similar to the 'harmonica' thread.
History has produced some strange contraptions as firearms evolved.

 

[sewerman]

looks like something out of a jules vern movie!!



s.m.

 

[Bill Akins]

Cool! Looks Hindu or middle eastern.


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[Hardcase]

Imagine a chain fire!

 

[Noz]

My thought exactly!

 

[SIGSHR]

I have seen pictures of that one elsewhere, though I can't recall when or where. I recommend the excellent book Firearms Curiosaby Lewis Winant, he covers many oddities such as this one.

 

[Bill Akins]

I found out more about it.

"This is Joseph Enouy’s invention, British patent #1359, dated 1855. It appears in Winant’s ‘Firearms Curiosa’ and Blair’s ‘Firearms of the World’. At that time it seems to have been in private hands – clearly now it’s in (or on loan to) a museum collection – not sure where though. Google Books has some nice contemporary reports of its invention at this link"...

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&safe=off&tbs=bks:1&q=enouy+revolver&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

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[zippy13]

Can you imagine cleaning that bad boy?

 

[kadima]

Looks the correct armament for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang....
K.

 

[Hardcase]

"Pardon me while I whip this out."