The new factory was first used for the manufacture of metallic rimfire cartridges but was later used to make both rifles and pistols. With the money brought into the company by Hankins, they were able to acquire a new factory. In 1862, William Hankins joined the firm and the company became "Sharps & Hankins". Approximately 85,000 of these little pepperboxes were made in the ten years between 18. Made with a brass frame, it had a spur or stud trigger, and was a single-action, four-shot repeater. Patent number 22753 was issued to Sharps on January 25, 1859, again for a "revolver". By this time, the metallic cartridge had been introduced and Sharps was able to develop his design into a practical repeating pistol. ![]() The pistol was not produced on a commercial basis until 1859, after Sharps had become sole owner of the Fairmont Rifle Works in West Philadelphia. The side hammer served both as a cocking lever and as the force behind the striker. This "revolver" was, actually, not a revolver at all, but a pepperbox in which the barrels didn't revolve! It was fired by a striker which did revolve, though, on a center post to hit, in sequence, the percussion caps which were placed on nipples on the ends of the barrels. ![]() On that date, the United States Patent Office issued patent number 6960 for a revolver to Christian Sharps, then residing in Washington, D.C. The story of the Sharps four-barrel pistol begins, officially, on December 18, 1849.
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