page_title: Pepper-box
section_title: Revival
hierarchical_section_title: Pepper-box / Revival
caption_attribution_description: secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Apache_revolver Revolver "casse-tete" Liége, 1875
context_page_description: The pepper-box revolver or simply pepperbox is a multiple-barrel repeating firearm that has three or more barrels which revolve around a central axis. It mostly appears in the form of a multi-shot handheld firearm. Pepperboxes exist in all ammunition systems: matchlock, wheellock, flintlock, caplock, pinfire, rimfire, and centerfire. While pepperboxes are usually handguns, a few rifle-sized guns were made; Samuel Colt owned a revolving 3-barrel matchlock musket from India, and an 8-barreled pepperbox shotgun was designed but never went into production.
context_section_description: The pepperbox experienced a kind of "revival" in the late 19th century as a short, easily concealable pocket pistol that used pinfire cartridges. The five-barrel Feilitzenre pistol was almost accepted as the standard officer sidearm for the Swedish Army.
  A special variation of this kind of handgun, in which the shortness of the barrel cluster was fully utilized, is the French Apache revolver. This weapon, allegedly popular among the Paris street gangs after whom it was named, was fitted with a folding blade and knuckle-duster. The pepperboxes from this period disappeared with the demise of the pinfire cartridge.
  One of the more interesting pepper-box revolvers is the .22 Short, six barrel Remington Zig-Zag Derringer.  Unlike the older single action designs, it had a double action ring trigger and can fire six shots as fast as you can pull the trigger. Guns of this type were prized by gamblers, in addition to the four-barrel Christian Sharps derringer, because they could be easily concealed in a vest pocket and easily used for self-defense.
caption: Apache revolver – Curtius Museum, Liège
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