ID needed , muzzle loading Drilling
The barrels turn to bring the rifle barrel up to postion
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This is the only markings my friend could find on it , in front of rear sight
Anyone got any ideas? Thanks
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Looks like sight was added on top of a name at a later time. Is that sight movable
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A swivel breech drilling. Very Interesting! I'd estimate the age to be 1860-70 or so. Are there any proof marks on the barrels visible on the undersides when they are removed from the stock?
Without any proofs at all, a good chance the gun was American manufacture. There were a lot of imports that came here and stamped with American hardware store names. But Euro proof marks on all barrels are the tell tale signs of foreign origins.
I'd bet there are more letters under the rear sight.
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Found this tidbit off the internet.
MJ Whitmore of Potsdam, New York build many such swivel-breech rifles and also build some much less common 4-barrel swivel guns. This particular example has two .40 caliber rifled barrels on one side and a combination of a .40 caliber rifle and a .40 smoothbore barrel on the other side. In a particularly neat touch, it holds a single loading rod hidden in a spring-capped chamber in the center of the barrel cluster.
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I can't examine the gun, it's in GA , I'm in CT
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brier-49: 29948841668251/comments/29948801505691
I can't examine the gun, it's in GA , I'm in CT
yep, I'd definately have to put my glasses on to see that far....................
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Very neat gun. My question.........how does the rifled barrel fire when rotated to the top? It looks to me that the cap would be in the center, with each hammer being to the left or right! Trying to figure that out, but I dont see how it works. Is it misisng a part?
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mike55: 29948841668251/comments/29948825577499
Very neat gun. My question.........how does the rifled barrel fire when rotated to the top? It looks to me that the cap would be in the center, with each hammer being to the left or right! Trying to figure that out, but I dont see how it works. Is it misisng a part?
my guess would be it would only turn 1/3 turn at time, so it would leave the rifled barrell either on the left or the right since it is a triangular shaped barrell cluster..... and maybe only line up with one of the hammers so it might only turn one way
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Cool piece
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The trigger guard is broken off , that may have been the barrel latch. I guess I gotta go to GA
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