A Small Pepperbox Revolver

An Unusually Small Cased J.R. Cooper Patent Under-Hammer Five-Shot Pepperbox Pocket Revolver, Mid 19th Century
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An Unusually Small Cased J.R. Cooper Patent Under-Hammer Five-Shot Pepperbox Pocket Revolver, Mid 19th Century. With fluted barrels engraved with foliage around the muzzles, foliate scroll engraved rounded action and butt, the former engraved J.R. Cooper patentee on a scroll along one side, ring-trigger, hinged rounded butt-trap cover engraved with scrolling foliage and owners name G. Barton, and figured finely chequered grips: in later fitted wooden case lined in burgundy velvet with accessories including brass-mounted powder flask retaining most of its original lacquered finish, all steel ramrod and bullet mould, the exterior of the lid with rectangular vacant brass escutcheon. Birmingham proofs. 


This revolver incorporates Coopers English Patent No. 8247 of 21 January 1840.