Original U.S. Civil War Era British .442 Caliber 4th Model Tranter Percussion Revolver - Serial 16969 T Near CSA Used Examples No Return making it the most widely

making it the most widely manufactured automatic weapon of World War I

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and the left scale has a repair on the lower front corner

It was not unusual for the boys to be approached by “characters” asking seemingly casual questions about military details

Original U.S. Civil War Era British .442 Caliber 4th Model Tranter Percussion Revolver - Serial 16969 T Near CSA Used Examples No Return making it the most widelyOriginal Item: Only One Available. The Tranter revolver was a double action cap & ball revolver invented around 1856 by English firearms designer William Tranter (1816 1890). Originally operated with a special dual trigger mechanism (one to rotate the cylinder and cock the gun, a second to fire it) later models employed a single trigger mechanism much the same as that found in the contemporary Beaumont Adams revolver. Early Tranter revolvers were