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<p>[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 253330, member: 25"]<a href="http://www.pinfireguns.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pinfireguns.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.pinfireguns.com/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.pinfireguns.com/pinfire-live-roundscaps-flat-p-548.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pinfireguns.com/pinfire-live-roundscaps-flat-p-548.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.pinfireguns.com/pinfire-live-roundscaps-flat-p-548.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>My favourite wierd round is the .22 Velo dog.</p><p><br /></p><p>The <b>Velo-Dog</b> (also known as a <i>Revolver de Poche</i>[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".</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velo-dog" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velo-dog" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velo-dog</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 253330, member: 25"][URL]http://www.pinfireguns.com/[/URL] 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. [URL]http://www.pinfireguns.com/pinfire-live-roundscaps-flat-p-548.html[/URL] My favourite wierd round is the .22 Velo dog. The [B]Velo-Dog[/B] (also known as a [I]Revolver de Poche[/I][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". [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velo-dog[/URL][/QUOTE]
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