Beautiful $3,295 working reproduction of the Confederate black-powder favorite LeMat revolver. Originals were hand-made in New Orleans. Part revolver, part shotgun, all sex.
“It was the only percussion revolver of the mid-19th century that rivaled the 1847 Walker Colt for sheer audacity of size and power. A unique looking firearm, the LeMat had a movable hammer that offered the option of firing a massive 9-shot .42 caliber cylinder from the top barrel and a second, lower shotgun barrel chambered for a grapeshot paper cartridge – the coup de grace.”
It was carried by, among others, Rebel cavalryman J.E.B. Stuart and also one of the Rebel officers in my novel Knoxville 1863. Click the pix to biggerize it for better detail.
Via America Remembers.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 