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The percussion cap replaced the flint, the steel "frizzen", and the powder pan of the flint-lock mechanism. It was only generally applied to the British military musket (the Brown Bess) in 1842, a quarter of a century after the invention of percussion powder and after an elaborate government test at Woolwich in 1834. The first percussion firearm produced for the US military was the percussion carbine version of the M1819 Hall rifle.
The discovery of fulminates was made by Edward Charles Howard (1774–1816) in 1800. The invention that made the percussion cap possible using the recently discovered fulminates was patented by the Rev. Alexander John Forsyth of Belhelvie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland in 1807.
Specifications
(19th Century)
Type: Pistol
Caliber: Various
Capacity: 1
Fire Modes: Single Shot
The Percussion Cap Pistol and variants can be seen in the following films, television series, video games, and anime used by the following actors:
Film
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Mark of Zorro | Douglas Fairbanks | Zorro | 1920 | |
| Marguerite De La Motte | Lolita Pulido | |||
| Jánošík | Theodor Pistek | Juraj Jánošík | 1921 | |
| Jozef Chylo | Pišta | |||
| soldiers | ||||
| hanged on the wall | ||||
| Lorna Doone | Frank Keenan | Sir Ensor Doone | 1922 | |
| Donald MacDonald | Carver Doone | |||
| John Bowers | John Ridd | |||
| Conspirators, Doones, Yeomen peasants | ||||
| Tom Sawyer | Leonid Kulakov | Pipkins | 1936 | |
| Boris Zagorsky | Pap Finn | |||
| Police | ||||
| The Charge of the Light Brigade | Errol Flynn | Maj. Geoffrey Vickers | 1936 | |
| G. P. Huntley | Maj. Jowett | |||
| Treasure Island (Ostrov sokrovishch) | Klavdiya Pugachyova | Jenny Hawkins | 1937 | |
| Osip Abdulov | John Silver | |||
| Pirates, Irish rebels, British soldiers | ||||
| Gavroche | Andrey Korablyov | Javert | Russian M1854 Naval | 1937 |
| Ivan Novoseltsev | Enjolras | |||
| Ivan Bobrov | Jean Prouvaire | |||
| Vasili Novikov | Marseille | |||
| Uncredited | Royalist officer | |||
| Republicans | ||||
| The Bear (Medved) | Seen on the wall; probably Russian M1854 Naval | 1938 | ||
| Jamaica Inn | A gang member | 1939 | ||
| A Captain at Fifteen (Pyatnadtsatiletniy kapitan) | Vsevolod Larionov | Dick Sand | Double barreled | 1945 |
| A slaver | ||||
| Mysterious Discovery (Tainstvennaya nakhodka) | Nikolay Grabbe | British officer | 1954 | |
| The Count of Monte Cristo | Seen on the table | 1954 | ||
| The Fabulous World of Jules Verne (Vynález zkázy) | Miloslav Holub | Count Artigas | As fictional automatic "clockwork" gun | 1958 |
| Václav Kyzlink | Engineer Serke | |||
| Pirates | Various models | |||
| The Hound of the Baskervilles | Seen on the wall in Baskerville Hall | 1959 | ||
| The Story of the Count of Monte Cristo | Louis Jourdan | Edmond Dantès / Count of Monte Cristo | 1961 | |
| Franco Silva | Mario | |||
| A Jester's Tale (Bláznova kronika) | Petr Kostka | Petr | 1964 | |
| Treasure of the Aztecs | Ralf Wolter | Andreas Hasenpfeffer | 1965 | |
| Pyramid of the Sun God | Ralf Wolter | Andreas Hasenpfeffer | 1965 | |
| A Pistol Shot (Vystrel) | hangs on the wall | 1966 | ||
| The Phantom of Morrisville (Fantom Morrisvillu) | Wall decoration | 1966 | ||
| The Three Fat Men (Tri tolstyaka) | Aleksey Batalov | Tibul | 1966 | |
| Lina Braknyte | Suok | |||
| Evgeniy Morgunov | Second Fat Man | |||
| Rebels, government troops, servant in palace | ||||
| Texas Across the River | Dean Martin | Sam Hollis | Two pistols | 1966 |
| Peter Graves | Capt. Rodney Stimpson | M1842 Dragoon's | ||
| Rosemary Forsyth | Phoebe Ann Naylor | Possibly M1842 Dragoon's | ||
| Hidden in a bouquet of flowers | ||||
| The Snow Queen (Snezhnaya koroleva) | Era Ziganshina | Little Robber Girl | Several different | 1967 |
| Olga Vikland | Robber Woman | Several different | ||
| Valeri Nikitenko | Storyteller | Blunderbuss pistol | ||
| Robbers | Various models | |||
| Viy or Spirit of Evil | Russian M1854 Naval, hangs on the wall | 1967 | ||
| Family Happiness (Semeynoe schastye) | Andrey Mironov | Sigayev | 1969 | |
| Anatoli Papanov | Stepan Chubukov | |||
| Georgiy Burkov | Ivan Lomov | |||
| Valentin Gaft | Gun store manager | |||
| An Old, Old Tale (Staraya, staraya skazka) | Georgiy Shtil | Bodyguard | 1969 | |
| The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes | Seen on the wall | 1970 | ||
| Treasure Island (Ostrov sokrovishch) | Quadruple, seen on the table | 1971 | ||
| The Light at the Edge of the World | Pirates | 1971 | ||
| The Lost Letter (Propala hramota) | Hanged on the wall | 1972 | ||
| Prosha, the Prince (Tsarevich Prosha) | Brigands | 1974 | ||
| The Count of Monte-Cristo | Donald Pleasence | Danglars | Kentucky Percussion Cap Pistol, by Pedersoli | 1975 |
| Truffaldino from Bergamo (Truffaldino iz Bergamo) | Viktor Kostetskiy | Florindo Aretusi | Mockups with genuine locks | 1977 |
| Evgeniy Tilicheev | Captain of guards | |||
| Boris Smolkin | A robber | |||
| An Ordinary Miracle (Obyknovennoye chudo) | Aleksandr Abdulov | The Bear | Russian M1854 Naval | 1978 |
| Evgeni Leonov | King | |||
| Evgeniya Simonova | Princess | |||
| Andrey Mironov | Minister Administrator | |||
| The Very Same Munchhausen (Tot samyy Myunkhgauzen) | Oleg Yankovskiy | Baron von Munchhausen | 1979 | |
| The Nightingale (Solovey) | Nikolay Trofimov | Junius Julius Augustus Bartholomew | 1980 | |
| Say a Word for the Poor Hussar (O bednom gusare zamolvite slovo) | Stanislav Sadalskiy | Cornet Aleksey Pletnyov | 1980 | |
| Vladimir Nosik | Hussar Officer | |||
| Valeriy Pogoreltsev | Hussar Officer | |||
| Nikolay Kochegarov | Hussar Officer | |||
| Valentin Gaft | Colonel Ivan Pokrovsky | |||
| Oleg Basilashvili | Count Merzlyaev | |||
| Evgeni Leonov | Afanasy Bubentsov | |||
| The Way of Bones (Drumul oaselor) | Ion Marinescu | Capitan Baroncea | 1980 | |
| Remus Margineanu | Sturzu | |||
| Iurie Darie | Pana Gradisteanu | |||
| Florin Piersic | Margelatu | |||
| Marga Barbu | Agatha Slatineanu | |||
| Gendarmes | ||||
| Treasure Island (Ostrov sokrovishch) | Leonid Markov | Capt. Billy Bones | 1982 | |
| Gennadiy Yukhtin | Israel Hands | |||
| Geliy Sysoev | Harry | |||
| Konstantin Vorobyov | Jim | |||
| Anatoliy Slivnikov | Job Anderson | |||
| Nikolai Kryukov | Tom Morgan | |||
| Georgi Shtil | O'Brien | |||
| Yuriy Nikolaev | A pirat | |||
| Vyacheslav Burlachko | A pirat | |||
| Valeriy Kozinets | A pirat | |||
| Pirates | ||||
| The Yellow Rose (Trandafirul galben) | Papil Panduru | Martolea | 1982 | |
| Szabolcs Cseh | Hare Lip | |||
| Ion Dichiseanu | Captain Margarit | |||
| Viorel Comanici | A Romanian officer | |||
| Dan Dobre | A Romanian officer | |||
| Romanian officers, revolutionaries, brigands | ||||
| A Cruel Romance | Andrey Myagkov | Karandyshev | 1984 | |
| Georgiy Burkov | Robinzon | |||
| The Silver Mask (Masca de argint) | Szabolcs Cseh | Hare Lip | 1985 | |
| Ovidiu Iuliu Moldovan | Aristide | |||
| Alexandru Repan | Serge Troianoff | |||
| Constantin Gurita | Casapu | |||
| Romanian officers and cavalrymen, criminals | ||||
| The Turquoise Necklace (Colierul de turcoaze) | Szabolcs Cseh | Hare Lip | 1986 | |
| David Ohanesian | Vincenzo Gonfalone | |||
| Agatha Slatineanu's henchmen | ||||
| Everything is Paid (Totul se plateste) | Szabolcs Cseh | Hare Lip | 1987 | |
| Emil Hossu | La Peyrolle | |||
| George Motoi | Deivos | |||
| Aristide Teica | Geambasu | |||
| Geambasu's men; revolutionaries | ||||
| The Prisoner of Castle If (Uznik zamka If) | Viktor Avilov | Count de Monte-Cristo | 1988 | |
| Igor Bogodukh | Morrel | |||
| Vyacheslav Tsoy | Li | |||
| Nikolay Kochegarov | Beauchamp | |||
| Luigi Vampa's bandits, de Morcerf's henchman | ||||
| Shipwrecked | Guy Fithen | Thatcher | 1990 | |
| Mother | Seen in gun store | 1990 | ||
| Weather Is Good on Deribasovskaya, It Rains Again on Brighton Beach | A mobster | 1992 | ||
| Dark Portals: The Chronicles of Vidocq | Gérard Depardieu | Vidocq | 2001 | |
| Bodyguard | ||||
| The Lady Musketeer | Assassins | 2004 | ||
| The Turkish Gambit (Turetskiy gambit) | Russian M1854 Naval, seen in the Turkish bank | 2005 | ||
| Oliver Twist | Jamie Foreman | Bill Sykes | 2005 | |
| Pirates of Treasure Island | Rhett Giles | Wilkins | 2006 | |
| Jeff Denton | Dr. Livesley | |||
| Andrea Lui | Yee | |||
| Lance Henriksen | John Silver | |||
| Pirates | ||||
| Silk | Michael Pitt | Hervé Joncour | 2007 | |
| Jun Kunimura | Umon | |||
| Japanese men | ||||
| Tatar Operation (Tatar ajillagaa) | Erdenebileg Ganbold | Tulga | 2011 | |
| Dmitriy Pevtsov | Gun Dealer | |||
| Beauty and the Beast | Perducas' brigands | 2014 | ||
| Forbidden Empire | Aleksandr Karpov | Panas | 2014 | |
| The Duelist (Duelyant) | Seen in Capt. Yakovlev's chest and in the gun store | 2016 |
Television
| Title | Actor | Character | Note / Episode | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Treasure Island (Die Schatzinsel) | Jacques Monod | Captain Alexander Smollet | Ep. 03; Double-barrelled | 1966 |
| Georges Riquier | Dr. David Livesey | |||
| Michael Ande | Jim Hawkins | Ep. 03, 04; Double-barrelled | ||
| The Count of Monte Cristo | Paulo Renato | Morel | 1979 | |
| Diogo Dória | Maximilien Morel | |||
| Bergerac | In Carteret's gun collection; "Prime Target" (S02E04) | 1983 | ||
| North and South | Lewis Smith | Charles Main | 1985 | |
| Famous Brigands Stories: Václav Babinský | Jan Schánilec | Wolf | 1th episode | 1986 |
| Brigands | ||||
| Famous Brigands Stories: Schinderhannes | Miroslav Vladyka | Schinderhannes | 4th episode | 1986 |
| Ladislav Trojan | Captain | |||
| Ladislav Potmesil | "Red Fox" | |||
| Brigands | ||||
| Dubrovsky | Mikhail Efremov | Vladimir Dubrovskiy | Travel pistol; double barreled pistol | 1989 |
| Gennadiy Frolov | Grigoriy | |||
| Brigands | ||||
| Inspector Morse | Seen on exhibition; "The Wench Is Dead" (S11E01) | 1998 | ||
| The Count of Monte Cristo | Jean-Claude Brialy | Pere Morrel | 1998 | |
| His Majesty's Secret Service (Sekretnaya sluzhba Ego Velichestva) | Wall decoration | 2006 | ||
| Demons (Besy) | Yuri Kolokolnikov | Nikolay Stavrogin | Russian M1854 Naval | 2006 |
| Pavel Trubiner | Artemy Gaganov | |||
| Demons (Besy) | Maksim Matveev | Nikolay Stavrogin | Russian M1854 Naval | 2014 |
| Aleksey Kirsanov | Aleksey Kirillov | |||
| Pavel Vorozhtsov | Artemy Gaganov | |||
| Always a Witch (Siempre Bruja) | on the table | 2019 | ||
| Pirate | "The Final Trip" (S1E10) |
Anime
| Show Title | Character | Notation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Castle in the Sky | Dola | 1986 | |
| Ojamajo Doremi # | Majo Pi | "Hana and Pop Both Take Exams!" (Ep.37) | 2000-2001 |
| Majo Pon | |||
| Samurai Champloo | Christian missionary | anachronistic for a scene that takes place in 16th century | 2004-2005 |