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These aren't valuable, but I think it's cute. My Dad had it. They're made in Spain. There's a tiny cleaning rod and there's actually a hole in the cylinder. Some say they're cap guns, but I've never seen a tiny cap. It's 2 1/4" from handle to tip of the barrel. It's put away for my grandson. I figure by the time he gets it, it'll be an antique.

 

I'm not going to dig mine out....but lets just say......if you were a boy...you'd have seen these as a kid...


Yours is easy to find....they still make a version of it....

I just bought some roll caps & they came in handy when you couldn't find the single dot caps...



This was my main carry gun..........( as a kid....)..




I can't get the image to load...but they were round red single shot caps..

sorry for the doubles......sumptins screwy.....

 

What she has is commonly referred to as a pinfire. They sell for hundreds to thousands for the better makers.

 

not even close, sir !



I own the Xythos......as well as many of the single shot models....

& these aren't even mine.....but I've got the exact same ones...




Hers is a cap gun....sold for a couple of bucks !

 

Very nice. Of course, I still have caps for the larger cap guns (my grandson got the one I used as a kid) but too big for this little guy. I'm going to have to look for the small ones now.

 

good luck..!

 

The pin on the loop is for pushing the shell out

 

When this happens, everyone note , go back to edit and put your cursor at the bottom right of the last photo and backspace until the dupes are gone.

 

yes the little metal rod is for extracting a red plastic cap....






This type of toy has nothing to do with a pinfire gun...

where a pin must be depressed into the metal casing.....



causing a violent shot to be fired thru a hollow barrel......




This is also a pinfire gun......but quite deadly....

 

I think I've one or two of these.
One may be a .45 Mark IV chrome plated with white grips.
I vaguely recall this so I'm not sure.

 

Which these.....I'm not sure which post you are answering......huh..huh...

 

https://www.antiquers.com/threads/posting-a-thread-and-uploading-pictures.15990/

 

http://www.pinfireguns.com/

Although not what a collector would call a pinfire pistol (19th C cartridges with a pin sticking out of the base rim), this seller does seem to have established a name 'Pinfire' for these miniatures, which have been around for many years, I have sold an old one myself on ebay by selling it as a watch fob not a gun. It fetched a good price so the right people saw it.
As far as I know the 2mm round is the smallest fixed ammunition made. This is less than half the size of .22 round which is 5.6mm.

http://www.pinfireguns.com/pinfire-live-roundscaps-flat-p-548.html

My favourite wierd round is the .22 Velo dog.

The Velo-Dog (also known as a Revolver de Poche[1]) was a pocket revolver originally created in France by Charles-François Galand in the late 19th century as a defense for cyclists against dog attacks. The name is a compound word composed of "velocipede" and "dog".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velo-dog

 

I never had a cap gun....my brother did, and all the neighborhood boys did also.

We girls would take a roll of caps, find a rock and bang away......we thought that was sooooo much fun! I loved the smell of the burnt cap (or should that be burned cap???)

 

Hi,
We used to as kids carefully scrape off the top paper on caps and dump the tiny bit of gunpowder into an old Mason Jar lid. When we did a roll or two we would blow it up!!! Lots of bang, we were lucky we did not lose a finger or an eye doing that.
greg

 

Oh my! That does sound dangerous. I hope you're mother didn't know about it......saving her a bit of heart failure!!

 

I was the only girl in our neighborhood, which was rural. And my parents wanted a boy. I got guns, bows & arrows and a Handy Andy toolkit for birthdays and Christmas. We used rocks, too. Still do. My grandson loves those bang caps that you throw on the ground.

 

Did you ever have a brother?????

 

Got a Weston like this http://www.pinfireguns.com/weston-miniature-belmex-pistol-twbmbsiv1b-p-338.html last year. The original price on the bottom of the box was 20 pesos.

Got a Little Atom rifle box in one lot at auction, got outbid on the lot that had three rifles. Managed to get the guy to sell one for fifty.

These are about 4mm and require a bunch of trimming to go in there

 

Why does he have 8 when it's 10?