jgoins Report This Comment Date: May 20, 2012 10:59AM
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;
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