This pair of 1786 flintlock pistols was made with ivory stocks and ... The Colt depicted is a Third Model Dragoon percussion revolver (ca. 1853). A Colt with such lavish decoration and gold ...

Open: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Collier Second Model Five-Shot Flintlock... Collier Second Model Five-Shot Flintlock Revolver [56.165] / Collier Second Model Five-Shot Flintlock ...

During a relic hunt in Charleston, SC, we uncovered something straight out of a history book - a 1700s flintlock pistol!

Bill Harriman, firearms specialist on BBC One's Antiques Roadshow, told Making History that a flintlock is a mechanism ... with the muzzle of the gun pointed well away. The firer would then ...