Flintlock pistols from 1775 to 1900
From around the beginning of the 1700s the larger pistols got shorter, so that by the late 1700s the largest would be more like 16 inches (41 cm) long. The smallest would fit into a typical pocket or a hand warming muff and could easily be carried by women. (1- Pair of four-barreled turnover percussion pistols of Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 1831 London; 2- Pair of flintlock pistols made for grand duke Constantine Pavlovich of Russia; 3- Turkish miquelet pistol. ca. 1850–75; 4- “queen anne” pistol, 1760; 5- Collier second model five-shot flintlock revolver, London 1820).
