Teatfire cartridges had a teat, similar to the teat on a cow's udder (hence the name) and were integral to the case much like a rimfire cartridge is (one piece of formed brass or copper). Teat fire ammo and pinfire ammo are not the same. These destinctions meen a lot with regards to legaly transfering the gun under federal law. Even if you cant prove its antiuque, the type of ammo should make it a curio or rellic. The gun uses obsolete ammo and was almost certanly made long enough ago its an antique (1890 something and before are antiques), not a firearm. Show it to the grand kids, but dont plan to send the to college on in. What you have is something that looks cool on the wall and is intersting to handle as an example of how far firearm design has come. The lack of ammo also kills off shooter interst.
This type of gun just does not have a good collectors following and little information is available on them. I think Chuck is about right -not much unless you can document something about it that makes it special (owned by a famous person for example). They changed over time so if you can find a table of proof marks and when they were used, you can bracket the guns age, and where it was proofed (final testing prior to sale). The marks (stars, e's, etc) all sound like belgin proof marks. The cost will probably excede the value of the gun, and not add enought to the value to justify it.Ī careful study of the marks on the gun could reveal its country of origin and roughly when it was made. In fact its manufacturers would probably be astounded by the pressures we operate at today. The gun was never intened to handle the pressures of moder ammo. It would be highly unadvseable to modify it to use modern 22 cal rimfire shells. Black powder and smokeless shells were sold side by side for many years after that. Smokeless powder was not invented until the 1880's. That configuration was popular for indoor gallery shooting. In the era this gun was made the shells would have been loaded with black power or just a cap and ball, with no powder. It probably failed becasue it is very hard to adapt to repeating arms and offers little or no benefit over the other systems. The system was developed about the same time as center fire and rim fire shells. Pin fire and teat fire refer to the same type of system.Ī pin protruded from the rim of the shell to connect the hammer to a precussion cap imbeded in the core of the shells head.īasicly the fireing pin was part of the shell rather than the hammer.
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