#mass arms

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This Mass Arms revolver had Maynard tape-fed primer system, popular in the mid-1850's, but required that the cylinder be rotated manually to avoid Colt's patents.

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This Mass. Arms belt revolver with Maynard tape priming, required manual rotation of the cylinder thanks to Sam Colt's lawyers.

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The Maynard percussion tape would come out of the slot to cover the nipple on this Mass Arms belt pistol.

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Where is the tape that is supposed to be fed up through that Maynard priming system?

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This Mass Arms belt pistol could be armed with Maynard tape primers.

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The original “cap gun”, a Maynard tape-primed Mass Arms revolver

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The button in front of the trigger on this Mass Arms revolver is the cylinder lock that had to be released in order to manually rotate the cylinder.  This pistol was made at a time when Colt was able to enforce his patent on automatic cylinder rotation.  Mass Arms had to discontinue an earlier model that violated the patent.