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Adams Revolver.

Adams M1851 Infantry revolver - .440

Adams Mk II revolver - .450 Adams

Adams Mk III revolver. circa 1868

Beaumont-Adams Percussion Revolver - .442 ball

The Adams percussion revolver was the brainchild of British gunsmith Robert Adams, who received a patent for a new revolver design in 1851. The gun was a .436 5-shot DAO solid-frame revolver with a spurless hammer. The East India Company was the first to put the new revolver into service. British officers often purchased the Adams revolver privately while the Army waited until 1857 when an improved Beaumont-Adams version was adopted. Ten years later, it was replaced by .450 6-shot breach loading version, designed by Robert's brother John Adams. Roughly five-hundred 6-shot .36 caliber Adams revolvers were produced under license by Massachusetts Arms Co. in the United States starting in 1858.

Unusually for a firearm of their age, screen examples will likely be originals as reproductions were nonexistent till 2023, when Avancargas Arsa of Spain began a small run of handcrafted reproductions. However no firing scenes with an Adams are known to exist from a 21st century production, presumably due to this scarcity and age.

Specifications

Adams Revolver

(1851 - ????)

Type: Revolver

Caliber(s): .440

Weight: ?

Length: ?

Barrel length: ?

Capacity: 5

Fire Modes: DAO

Beaumont-Adams Revolver

(1856 - about 1880)

Type: Revolver

Caliber(s): .442

Weight: 2.4 lb (1.1 kg), unloaded

Length: 11.25 in. (286 mm)

Barrel length: ?

Capacity: 5

Fire Modes: DAO

The Adams Revolver and variants can be seen in the following films, television series, video games, and anime used by the following actors:

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Notation	Date
Capt. Grant's Family (Deti kapitana Granta)	David Gutman	Major Mac Nabbs		1936
The Mysterious Island (Tainstvennyy ostrov)	Ivan Kozlov	Tom Ayrton		1941
Hannie Caulder	Robert Culp	Thomas Luther Price		1971
The Headless Horseman	Eslinda Núñez	Isidora Covarubio	Beaumont-Adams	1973
The Headless Horseman	Aleksandr Milokostyj	Henry Poindexter	Beaumont-Adams	1973
How the West Was Won	Gregory Peck	Cleve Van Valen		1985
Far and Away		N.Y.C. Irish thug		1992
Pawnshop (Lombard)				2013
True History of the Kelly Gang			Seen on Sgt. O'Neil's nightstand	2019

Television

Title	Actor	Character	Notation	Date
Sherlock Holmes	Nigel Stock	Dr. Watson	Mk II or Mk III; "The Hound of the Baskervilles" (S02E04 and E05) and "The Sign of Four" (S02E15)	1968

Anime

Film Title	Character	Note	Date
Princess Principal		Ep. 03; Beaumont-Adams	2017

Video Games

Title	Appears As	Note	Date
Assassin's Creed Syndicate	"1856 Revolver"	Beaumont Percussion variation; incorrectly depicted as holding 6 rounds.	2015

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-The '''Adams percussion revolver''' was the brainchild of British gunsmith Robert Adams, who received a patent for a new revolver design in 1851. The gun was a .436 5-shot DAO solid-frame revolver with a spurless hammer. The East India Company was the first to put the new revolver into service. British officers often purchased the Adams revolver privately while the Army waited until 1857 when an improved '''Beaumont-Adams''' version was adopted. Ten years later, it was replaced by .450 6-shot breach loading version, designed by Robert's brother John Adams.
+The '''Adams percussion revolver''' was the brainchild of British gunsmith Robert Adams, who received a patent for a new revolver design in 1851. The gun was a .436 5-shot DAO solid-frame revolver with a spurless hammer. The East India Company was the first to put the new revolver into service. British officers often purchased the Adams revolver privately while the Army waited until 1857 when an improved '''Beaumont-Adams''' version was adopted. Ten years later, it was replaced by .450 6-shot breach loading version, designed by Robert's brother John Adams. Roughly five-hundred 6-shot .36 caliber Adams revolvers were produced under license by Massachusetts Arms Co. in the United States starting in 1858.
-Unusually for a firearm of their age, screen examples will likely be originals as reproductions are essentially<!--Apparently there's one guy in Brazil who made a few examples for considerable cost. Can't verify and practically insignificant numbers even if true.--> non-existent. However no firing scenes with one are known to exist from a 21st century production, presumably due to this scarcity.
+Unusually for a firearm of their age, screen examples will likely be originals as reproductions were nonexistent till 2023, when Avancargas Arsa of Spain began a small run of handcrafted reproductions. However no firing scenes with an Adams are known to exist from a 21st century production, presumably due to this scarcity and age.
 ==Specifications==