Turbiaux-system revolver, called "The Protector"
France
19th century
Steel and wood
Length: 10.4; Long. Barrel: 3.6 cm
Caliber: 6 mm

Centerfire palm revolver, flat cylinder, ten shots and steel finish.
Circular wooden plaques.
Rosettes marked “LE PROTECTOR SYSTEME TURBIAUX” on one side and “Bte SGDG EN FRANCE ET A l'ÉTRANGER PARIS”.
Registration number “4866”.

Jacques Edmond Turbiaux, a French gunsmith and inventor, filed a patent in 1882 for a radial cylinder weapon called "Le Protector". He extended this filing to Germany, England, Belgium and Italy; then a year later, in 1883, to the United States – where the Minneapolis Fire Arms Co. began marketing it, then sold the patent to Finnegam.

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Ref.: 7028

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