Enouy percussion revolver

This is a 48-shot percussion revolver designed by Joseph Enouy in 1855.
===Overview===
Enouy's percussion revolver is British patent #1359, obtained on December 11th, 1855. The patent is as follows: 
Although Enouy did not actually design the revolver itself (the gun is a Charles Osborne transitional revolver dating from around 1845), he did design the strange contraption attached to it. The "compound magazine" was a rotating wheel that held 8 cylinders - a total of 48 rounds of ammunition in total - and was designed to reduce the time it took to reload the weapon. The weapon was undoubtedly very hefty and unwieldy with the wheel attached to it. Enouy patented the design, but it was never produced in large numbers and the design never gained any popularity. Whether it was even sold commercially is unlikely.
Enouy's revolver was formerly owned by the late Cecil Gordon Vokes, who died in 1961.
Enouy Trans.png|Enouy's revolver.
Transitional_Ferris_Wheel_Mockup.png|A wooden mockup of a similar design (unknown date).
Forty-eight_shooter.jpg|Side view of the wooden mockup.