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.22 cal pistol
Onefinerott
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I have a .22 cal pistol (single shot), 2 1/4" barrel, overall length of 4 1/2", 2 3/4" tall (from the top of the hammer to the bottom of the wooden grips), center fire, smooth bore with no brand name, just markings on it. The markings are, 2 crowns (one above the other) with the letter "U" under them. There are 2 sets of these markings located on the bottom side of the barrel and on a swing plate just behind the chamber. There is the number 27 stamped on the hammer, swing plate and brass ejector.
Does anyone have any idea what the 2 crowns and U stand for? I will send photos if needed.
Thank you for any info you might have.
Does anyone have any idea what the 2 crowns and U stand for? I will send photos if needed.
Thank you for any info you might have.
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Found this photo on-line. Many of the Flobert pistols mostly made in Belgium, Germany & France, were similar.
Do you know what they were used for? Looks to me like a trappers pistol.
Also often referred to as "Parlor Guns", they were often used in "Parlors" or Living Rooms to shoot at small targets using logs in the fireplace as a backstop.
Don't try this with your .600 Nitro Express! [:D]
breech loading pistols of its time, useful by bicyclist for warding off dogs. Altho often called a flobert, it is not a real flobert type.
The real Flobert has an open breech, depending on a very heavy hammer, with firing pin on it, to close the breech and resist the firing forces of the very weak round it fires. This also makes it a rather large and heavy gun, unsuitable as a pocket pistol.
It found popularity in Europe from the 1850s as a parlor toy, shooting targets by the affluent who could indulge their hobbies. The real Floberts are usually very well crafted and often engraved and decorated. This website shows one
http://collectorsfirearms.com/admin/product_details.php?itemID=22701
The closeups show the heavy hammer that falls directly on the head of the cartridge.
The term flobert has come into use to cover most any simple (and usually cheap) single shot small bore rimfire type with a center mounted hammer. Capitalizing the name Flobert when used correctly tends to recognize this among the earliest of breech loading types dating from as early as the 1840s.