Help identifying a pistol

[Gunsnwater]

Parlor gun. They target shot in da house back then.

[Delkal]

What is the use of a gun like that? 22 short out of a short barrel. Killing rabbits at point blank range?

At the turn of the Century if you got shot you were screwed. You went out of your way to avoid it and didn't laugh at a little peashoother.

[abner13]

At the turn of the Century if you got shot you were screwed. You went out of your way to avoid it and didn't laugh at a little peashoother.

Yep , bullets were outside lubricated with beeswax and picked up every speck of dirt. The bullet might not kill you , but the infection eventually would.