.40 caliber. 8" octagonal wedge retained barrel. NSN. Bright finish, German silver mountings, checkered walnut stock. Single shot percussion muzzleloading rifled pistol. Back action percussion lock is lightly engraved and marked KRIDER. Breech and tang are engraved with similar foliate patterns with the top flat of the barrel marked PHILADA. Engraved German silver triggerguard with pineapple finial. German silver nose cap, wedge escutcheons, entry pipe and thumb plate. Fixed notch rear sight and dovetailed German silver front sight blade. An iron thimble retains an old wooden ramrod. A prototypical percussion "Plains" style pistol of the type popular during the 1840s. From the Collection of Charles Worman, co-author of the two volume set Firearms of the American West. For similar examples by Krider see James D. Gordon's Great Gun Makers for the Early West Volume II.