Can anyone identify gun parts?

[jml818]

Not sure if this is a gun part at all, but if it is it would be some type old snub nose. The letters SP are engraved in the side. Seems to be some type hallmark too on other side but too corroded to make out.

 

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[Fourman110]

Sure looks like a muzzle loading pistol barrel that had bad day.

 

[Greybear]

Small pocket pistol barrel from a cap lock single shot muzzleloading pistol. These were often called muff pistols as women would keep them in their hand warming muffs. Late 1800’s to very early 1900’s

 

[jml818]

Sure looks like a muzzle loading pistol barrel that had bad day.

I agree, and hopefully the shooter of this gun didn't have a worse day!

 

[G.I.B.]

Very cool find!

Must have had a great story to it....

 

[Fullstock]

You found the barrel portion of a boxlock percussion pistol. Looks like the barrel ruptured and it was thrown away. Very cool find.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Greybear was the first to get this brass pistol barrel's ID right... except for the date. Having a provision for a percussion-cap nipple means it dates from the 1820s through 1860s, not "late 1800s to very early 1900s."

After the 1860s, production of muzzleloading percussion-cap ignition almost completely stopped, due to the advent of metal cartridges for bullets.

Here's a tip of my grey kepi to Fullstock, for providing the excellent photo showing what your pistol looked like before it was damaged and discarded. Note that the hammer is resting on the (screw-in) percussion-cap nipple.