Percussion Cap Primer. ... for placing caps on gun nipples, has been invented by Russel Frisbee, of Middletown, Conn., who has taken measures to secure a patent.

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By beginning with percussion caps children might be taught to handle a gun at such an early age, that, in case of invasion of this country, boys of fourteen might be able to act as soldiers, ...

The Fayetteville Model 1862 was a percussion cap musket that saw broad usage by the Confederates. Nearly 32,000 were produced over the course of the Civil War.

A new composition has lately been invented by Messrs. Winiwarter and Gersheim, of Vienna, tor the purpose of superseding the ordinary percussion caps, and, in many instances, the gunpowder charge ...

The percussion cap gun with a hexagonal barrel was marked “Wm. Goldthwait.” Prosecutors said the gun was worth $3,000 and had been taken from the Longmeadow Historical Society on Sept. 13, 1970.

Flintlock pistols of the late 18th and early 19th centuries were eventually replaced by percussion cap firearms, ... Model 1842 Percussion Pistol > Primary era of use: 1786-1833 > Notable conflict ...