#tip-up

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The Lucius Pond Revolver has a tip-up mechanism like the early Smith and Wesson models.  What you see on the near side is the cylinder axis.  The post on the far side is an ejector.  Production of these guns was shut-down by the enforcement of the Rollin White patent.

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Way to take down a Smith and Wesson model One and a half.

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Smith and Wesson Number 1 Tip-up revolver

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Smith & Wesson #1 seven shot revolver, circa 1860

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Hopkins & Allen Safety Police. You might mistake it for a Smith and Wesson from this angle.

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"I was armed to the teeth with a pitiful little Smith & Wesson seven-shooter, which carried a ball like a homeopathic pill, and it took the whole seven to make a dose for an adult. But I thought it was grand. It appeared to me to be a dangerous weapon. It had only one fault—you could not hit anything with it. One of our conductors practiced a while on a cow with it, and as long as she stood still and behaved herself she was safe; but as soon as she went to moving about, and he got to shooting at other things, she came to grief."

Mark Twain