$2000.00 Do not let people talk you out of this.
A muzzle loading pistol using a cap to ignite the powder charge
wrap it, box it, go to the post office.
$800.00
I would recommend taking the percussion pistol to a local gun shop and seeing what they deem the pistol to being valued at. They would be able to assist you in identifying the marks and giving the information about it, as well as the age.
Pistol made by Hopkins and Allen @ turn of the century or before.
40 grains of fffG
Single shot pistols take a #11 and revolvers take a # 10
they were produced for the Union Army during the civil war...............
Impossible to answer.
Unknown
The first weapon that worked like a pistol was the matchlock arm, used by Spanish armies in the late 15th Century. Wheel locks were then invented and the weapon was in common use by French armies by 1544. In 1836 the revolving pistol (revolver) as it now exists was patented by Samuel Colt of Connecticut.
Colt ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No one knows who built the first 'hand pistol', as they appeared in the 17th century,( if I remember right.) The