Now THIS is a pistol.

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Manufactured by Henry Morrill, Silas Mosman and Charles Blair of Amherst, Massachusetts, c. 1837. This unusual weapon combines a boxlock percussion pistol with a Bowie type knife blade. The pistol is smaller than the U.S. Navy Elgin Cutlass Pistol manufactured by C.B. Allen of Springfield, Massachusetts, for the Wilkes South Sea Exploring Expedition but is the same basic design patented by George Elgin (U.S. patent number 254 dated July 5th, 1837).

 

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that is the kind of knife you bring to a gun fight