Pepper-Box Revolver English year 1840

Replica 6-gun pepper revolver made of metal and wooden handle with firing mechanism and rotating gun.

The pepper box, also called pepper shaker or pepper (because of its resemblance to a pepper mill), is a multiple-barrelled repeating gun that has three or more cannons aligned around a central axis.

It often appears as a pistol of several shots. They exist with all firing systems: wick, wheel, spark, percussion, Lefaucheux, ring and centrefire cartridges.

The pepper box was invented in the 1830s and was primarily aimed at the civilian market. Its occupation spread rapidly and it was popular in the United States by 1830.