Odd? Not many uncommon ones, unless we can go back a ways.
I do have a set of British Transitional revolvers. These were an intermediate step between pepperboxes and Colt style revolvers. Some writing indicates the Brits wanted to make revolvers like Colt's, but were prevented by patents. So they did the next best thing; they used the back end of a pepperbox, converting the barrel cluster to a cylinder, added a cylinder axis pin, a rifled barrel, and a barrel wedge. Mostly all DA only, the trigger pull advanced the cylinder, cocked the bar hammer, and pushed a pin forward to lock the cylinder in place as the hammer fell.
They were also smuggled into the South during the Civil War; there is an excellent nearly-new example in the NRA museum that was confiscated from a Blockade Runner.
On both of these, the bar hammer was cracked, likely from dry firing. Internals were not working and appear to have been 'gunsmithed' by someone without a clue. I have TIG welded one hammer but I am still studying the second one as someone - likely the aforementioned 'someone without a clue' - attempted to braze it. That will have to be removed before welding or a new hammer made. Caliber is about .440" with deep rifling in good shape.
Any further interest, I can post more pics.
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2023-09-21, 09:50
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2023-09-21, 16:29
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