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    New Lancaster display

    Part of my new display showing most of my Lancaster collection.



    I am always looking for more and will pay a $100 “Finder’s fee” for information leading to the successful purchase of any multi barreled Lancaster pistol.
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    Very impressive collection John. Nicely done.

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    Dang!

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    I dropped by the show room a few weeks ago and I gotta say your staff are amazing! Knowledgable and super nice! And your collection is outstanding!

    Cheers, curtis

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    Wanna sell one John :-P
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    Very cool!

    What's with the obsession though? Was it the first pistol you handled as a child or something?

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    Great love to come by and see them. Hope you don't mind the past of what it is, I went of an Googled to find out more, must know every thing .

    The Lancaster Pistol was a multi-barrelled (either 2 or 4 barrels) handgun produced in England in the mid-late 19th century,[1] chambered in a variety of centrefire pistol calibres—chiefly .380", .450 Adams, .455 Webley, and .577 calibre.[2]

    It was a modernised version of the pepper-box pistol popular in the early-mid 19th century.[3] Unlike these earlier guns, which had percussion cap ignition the Lancaster was chambered for the more modern brass cartridges. It had a faster rate of fire than the standard-issue Adams revolver and was often fitted with a Tranter-type trigger to overcome the heavy pull of the revolving striker.[3]

    Sometimes classified as a Howdah pistol, the Lancaster pistol enjoyed popularity with British officers in India and Africa during the British Raj owing to its faster rate of fire and increased reliability over contemporary revolvers.

    Its ammunition had greater stopping-power than the contemporary Beaumont-Adams and Colt Navy revolvers, making it ideal for colonial warfare. When facing charging tribesmen like the Zulus or Dervishes more modern ammunition tended to go straight through the enemy who would keep going. What was needed was a heavy lead bullet that would lodge in their body and bring them down.[3]

    It was eventually displaced by the various Webley revolvers in the late 19th century, as revolvers became more reliable and faster to reload, thus removing many of the advantages of the multi-barrel design. A few were still in use as late as World War I, and they were well known to be solidly built and easy to maintain.
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    Someones making tooooo much money ;-)
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    Quote Originally Posted by H.K.Glock 007 View Post
    Someones making tooooo much money ;-)
    Lancaster + Gold + Ammo + Silver > Paper investments

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    That is a beautiful thing right there...thanks for sharing John!

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