Percussion Transition Revolvers

 I am fascinated by 'transitional' weapons technology, including very early armored cars and tanks and also firearms. This post was 'triggered' by the Jecsan toy cowboys that have odd revolvers with the bullet chambers far forward.

  What is interesting about revolvers is they existed hundreds of years before the 19th century and Colt's innovative revolvers. There were even matchlock revolvers, but those early revolvers had to have the chambers manually turned. The Colt mid nineteenth century revolver's chamber was turned by the cocking mechanism.

  I wanted to find something like the Jecsan cowboys' revolvers Here is an English one.

Transitional Revolvers: The Bridge Between 19th-Century Hand - Guns and Ammo

Here is the link from Guns & Ammo 

Counter-intuitively, many of these strange designs came out AFTER Colt's more familiar design.

It was, of course, revolvers with the revolving chamber further back that became the dominant design. However, it just shows that the Jecsan toy cowboys' revolvers were not totally wrong, although the revolving chambers on them are more chunky.