Støckel: London, patented 24 November 1818 flintlock revolver

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[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Flintlock revolver.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

E. H. COLLIER, Nov. 24th 1818 patented flintlock-revolver, 5-shot, gas-sealed, hand-revolved. According to Sutherland's book Sam Colt bought one in London, and he developed out of this model the single action system = by cocking the hammer the cylinder turns. Sotheby's auction catalog and a copy of a broad sheet signed by famous makers Samuel Nock, W. A. Beckwith and Thomas Mortimer.

[bgill]

Looks like fun!

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Great photos at site.
My favorite handgun website.

[Westlander]

xzellent!

[VOA]

Thanks for the post.
It’s been rainy and overcast here in Mid-Missouri for the past day.
Nothing like a bit of good “gunporn” to knock me out of my lethargy!

[elcid1970]

Note the fluted cylinder and rebated chambers - features thought to have come along decades later.

Of course, the Collier revolver can’t beat the repeating flintlocks I saw in the movies: the character fires his flintlock pistol, then merely recocks the hammer and closes the frizzen, and fires again!

Even that pales next to the everloading sixgun that never goes `click’: in one western flick I counted nineteen rounds out of a sixshooter before the cowpoke paused to reload and go on to win the gun duel.

[blackminorca]

thats a lot of sparkin going on next to 4 more cylinders full of explosive black powder

[Sparticus]

thats a lot of sparkin going on next to 4 more cylinders full of explosive black powder

That's where the term "chain fire" came from. Typically, the ends of the chambers would be sealed with wax or thick grease to reduce the risk of sparks from getting in through the forward end of the cylinder. Didn't always work, though.