Rupertus Patented Pistol Manufactory

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Rupertus Patented Pistol Manufactory 1924 North 4th Street Philadelphia Pennsylvania 1859 1899


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See Rupertus, Jacob

Trade name:
Empire (inexpensive pocket spur trigger revolvers)
Empress (about 1880)
General (inexpensive pocket revolvers)
Protector Arms Company (inexpensive pocket revolvers)
Terrier (inexpensive pocket revolvers)

Produced single-shot percussion and cartridge pistols, four shot cartridge pistols like the Sharps, eight-shot pepperboxes, rimfire double pistols with barrel swings to left to load, rifles and revolvers. Eshibited revolvers and repeating pistols at the International exhibition, Philadelphia, 1876.

four barrel Sharp's type pistols, single shot percussion or cartridge pistols, some sporting rifles, shotguns

.41 r.f. caliber five-shot, single action revolver, spur trigger, round barrel, bird-head grip.

Rupertus .41, left side
Rupertus .41, right side