Original British Victorian .36cal Pepperbox Percussion Revolver with Birmingham Proofs - circa 1850

Original Item: Only One Available. This is a very nice example of the unusual system known as the "PEPPERBOX". The muzzle is similar to the business end of a Pepper Pot of the the early days of Queen Victoria. All six barrels are contained in one solid "tube" or cylinder of steel revolving as a unit. The system was quickly superseded with the design of the traditional revolver, using a rotating chamber and a single barrel in the 1840s-1850s. Pepper boxes as such were short lived with the possible exception in France and Belgium, where examples using the Pin Fire and Rimfire systems were made into the late 1870's. Our example does not have any maker marks on it, as these were usually made with the intention that the retailer would add their own marks to the frame, however that did not happen in this case. The only markings present on the exterior are the CROWN / CROSSED SCEPTERS / B P C "black powder proof" and CROWN / CROSSED SCEPTERS / V "viewed" marks from the city of Birmingham, sta