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Huge Dumonthier Bowie Knife Revolver (Ad-free)
🕑 Added 2025-08-18 12:00:07 +0000 UTCJoseph-Célestin Dumonthier was one of the most notable and prolific gunsmiths in France specializing in combination guns. He made a variety of knife-guns and gun-knives large and small, as well as things like cane guns and occasionally even just regular guns. He initially worked in Houdan (about 30 miles west of Paris) in the 1840s before moving into Paris proper from the 1850s until the 1890s.
This particular example of his work is a 6-shot Lefaucheux revolver with a fixed trigger and trigger guard. It has a roughly 8 3/8” Bowie style blade with the barrel built in. Quite the impressive piece!
Early Dumonthier-type double barreled knife-gun: https://youtu.be/WyrE3FSU01w
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Forgotten Weapons
I'm sure someone made them at some point, but I have not seen one.
Robert Beattie
Thanks for the nice video on a truly forgotten weapon. Especially thanks for showing a pin fire cartridge which I had not seen before. Now I understand how those sorts of guns work. By the way, is there some sort of holding device for this gun/knife -- holster/scabbard ?
Michael Minnott
This isn't related to this video, but to one by Ryan McBeth on YouTube. He does intelligence based content and has recently been to Israel. He is looking to put together 8, or so content creators to go to Israel to interview the IDF. He mentioned you by name. Perhaps you might want to look him up. The link to the video is here (the pertinent part starts around 22 minutes in): https://youtu.be/qgUzVZiint0?si=xesmCCFq8YxeSm7e
WayneWiiki
and to be clear...I don't want to get shot with a pinfire...or rimfire...or centerfire...or airsoft...or round yellow ping pong ball NERF anymore.
