Unwin & Rodgers KNIFE PISTOLS:

The English Rodgers firm made knives including, razors, pen-knives, Bowies and Trade knives for export. - Rodgers was joined in Sheffield by Unwin in 1828 - but he died only one year later in 1829.

The works continued successfully for years and made a range of these neat single shot pocket knife-pistols:

Top Knife-Pistol is Percussion - Then a .25" Rimfire, & Bottom is a .32" Rimfire.

This one is a .32" Rimfire with a 3.5/8" long octagonal barrel, folding trigger and two 4" blades.

I guess these combination weapons were a bit of a novelty .. more curious than practical - but they certainly are easily concealed ..

.. and might impress strangers when used to sharpen a tooth pick or to cut the rounded cap off a cigar .. but they sold for many years while progressing from percussion ignition, pin-fire to rim-fire.

- Is that knives for hunting indians or for Indians Hunting ?

Marty K.