A Miniature 18th Century Firearm with firearms expert Jonathan Ferguson

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  • @RoyalArmouriesMuseum
    @RoyalArmouriesMuseum  วันที่ผ่านมา +34

    TH-cam is taking an especially long time to generate subtitles - this might be likely to us switching to a higher resolution bitrate/codec which takes longer for TH-cam to process. In the meantime the editor has generated automatic subtitles on his editing software (apologies for any auto-generated typos or AI being unable to understand Jonathan) and uploaded them to the video for those who require them. We'll try process the video far earlier to sort this in the future. Cheers :)

  • @DirtyHairy1
    @DirtyHairy1 วันที่ผ่านมา +37

    12:18 good cameraman. keep it rolling no matter what happens

  • @mickymondo7463
    @mickymondo7463 วันที่ผ่านมา +57

    Back in 1986 I was in St Asaph with my late father, there was a Marstons pub called The Bull we were having a pint awaiting the Marstons Hippo steam lorry to arrive, the Landlord was an avid collector of all manner of things, including a very comprehensive collection of early Webley air pistols.
    However what was more interesting was a small single shot percussion pistol, all engraved with Ivory grip and a hidden trigger which dropped down when the hammer was cocked. It was in a purple velvet case complete with ram rod and miniature shot and the tiniest percussion caps I have ever seen.
    It was about half the size of this particular example that you have, and was featured in a book that the Landlord showed us, I have often wondered over the years where this little pistol ended up.

    • @JonathanFergusonRoyalArmouries
      @JonathanFergusonRoyalArmouries วันที่ผ่านมา +24

      Interesting! We actually do have a pair of even smaller miniature antique pistols - percussion and indeed cased, like the one you mention.

    • @mickymondo7463
      @mickymondo7463 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

      @@JonathanFergusonRoyalArmouries That's interesting indeed, I would love to see a picture of them both. I remember the Landlord showing my late father and I the book which contained a couple small glossy photographs of the pistol, and him asking us where we thought that would be, we both assumed it would be in a museum somewhere and he then pulled a small velvet bag out of his pocket which cntained the purple velvet case with the pistol inside.
      He was an avid collector of all manner of things from police helmets truncheons, handcuffs etc and the Webley air pistols and other items many of which were hanging on the beams above the bar and around the pub.
      It has stuck in my mind ever since, the engraving alone was amazing on something so small, I seem to think it was only around two inches long and the shot for it was like grains of sand.

    • @johnanon6938
      @johnanon6938 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      @@JonathanFergusonRoyalArmouries Oh please do a Christmas special video on them as a follow up to this video??? 🙏

  • @johnmcgovern5372
    @johnmcgovern5372 วันที่ผ่านมา +68

    Could it be an apprentice piece? Cabinet and furniture apprentices would aften make minitures to show off their skills.

    • @scrappydoo7887
      @scrappydoo7887 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

      That would be a really cool addition to the history of the piece of it can be traced

    • @wilhelmvonn9619
      @wilhelmvonn9619 วันที่ผ่านมา +10

      Could be, but gunmaking in miniature is a distinct field of craftsmanship that goes back centuries. There are tiny matchlocks and wheellocks.

    • @JonathanFergusonRoyalArmouries
      @JonathanFergusonRoyalArmouries วันที่ผ่านมา +25

      I mention 'essay' pieces' at one point (unless that got cut out?). It's possible, we just don't have any proof that it was done in the gunmaking world. Although I should ask the Worshipful Company of Gunmakers because they might have come across such proof.

    • @jon9021
      @jon9021 วันที่ผ่านมา

      That’s what I was thinking.

    • @johnmcgovern5372
      @johnmcgovern5372 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@JonathanFergusonRoyalArmouries Yep they'd definitely be the people to ask. I've been meaning to email you guys about whether you have any info on weapons the War Trphies Comitee gave out after WW!? At our Museum we have a pair of Tank Gewehrs and a MG 08/15 with no Provenance. I have a sneaking suspicion the WTC gave them to us.

  • @loosegoose41
    @loosegoose41 วันที่ผ่านมา +23

    The note in the barrel made me think - any particularly interesting finds the Armouries have come across in a rifle stock, etc?

  • @dertzlycron9979
    @dertzlycron9979 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    Time to shine a light into every barrel in the collection. Maybe that Ian and Jonathan treasure hunt movie can be a documentary instead of fiction.

  • @wilhelmvonn9619
    @wilhelmvonn9619 วันที่ผ่านมา +15

    There are a number of books on miniature firearms, such as "Belgian Miniature Firearms" and "Early Miniature Firearms", both by John Cooper, and "Miniature Firearms" by Merrill Lindsay. "The Art of Miniature Firearms" deals with modern examples. And there are more. Mostly out of print but they can be found. I find them fascinating.

    • @JonathanFergusonRoyalArmouries
      @JonathanFergusonRoyalArmouries วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      Yes, I actually should have mentioned that we have more literature here than we do actual miniatures - including issues of the British Miniature Arms Society Newsletter!

  • @patrikhjorth3291
    @patrikhjorth3291 วันที่ผ่านมา +30

    A pistol for an owner who really isn't worried about compensating for anything.

  • @scrappydoo7887
    @scrappydoo7887 วันที่ผ่านมา +32

    Its the flintlock colibri lol

    • @KwadDamyj
      @KwadDamyj 23 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

      Battlefield 1711

  • @booglewho86
    @booglewho86 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

    Most interesting, thank you for sharing.
    You mention that he came from Appleby, there was a large family of Clockmakers in the 18th century called Wilson in and around that area, Kendal, Askrigg, Kirkby Stephen to name a few of their other locations.

    • @JonathanFergusonRoyalArmouries
      @JonathanFergusonRoyalArmouries วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      That's interesting - I did briefly look at gunmakers there and didn't see any, but transferable skills perhaps.

    • @booglewho86
      @booglewho86 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@JonathanFergusonRoyalArmouries Yes I agree, there would certainly be some transferable skills. In the early 17th century the previously mentioned Wilson family can be traced to Newcastle upon Tyne and Thirsk working as locksmiths.
      I recently researched a percussion gun by Joseph Wood of York and found that they were also a family in the jewellery and watchmaking trade.

  • @elitearbor
    @elitearbor วันที่ผ่านมา +11

    Reminds me of the miniature percussion cap pistols I made years ago, to fire BBs.

    • @scrappydoo7887
      @scrappydoo7887 18 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      @@elitearbor I did something similar as a kid that used primers as the charge. Better than a cap gun but only just lol

  • @jorisammerlaan
    @jorisammerlaan วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    While not a flintlock, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has a ring with a built-in wheel lock on display that was used by one of the Stadtholders (from memory, William III) to shoot paper wads in school. It is missing its barrel, but it is even smaller than this…

  • @connormatthews522
    @connormatthews522 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Jonathan would you ever take on an apprentice of sorts to pass your knowledge and skillset on to? Your passion for what you do is magnetic and I'd love to one day be an expert with such a love and understanding of my field.

  • @robertpaulson2946
    @robertpaulson2946 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

    3:18 "you vs the guy she tells you not to worry about"

  • @Yuzral
    @Yuzral วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    "Just to prove that I can" has explained an awful lot of things in human history...

  • @ianmitchell1977
    @ianmitchell1977 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Adds a whole new to the phrase "mouse gun". Great episode as usual. Thanks.

  • @Zakk_Zero
    @Zakk_Zero วันที่ผ่านมา

    😳🤯 I'm pretty sure anything smaller than that flintlock can only be measured in Planck lengths. Another great video! Thank you 👍

  • @MrHerrGotlieb
    @MrHerrGotlieb 16 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Intriguing mention of the gun fairs at the end - I wonder if this is comparable to the miniatures that furniture sellers would carry around to showcase their wares...

  • @TheKerberos84
    @TheKerberos84 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

    Was that rounded part of the Grip with its iron/metal intended to be used as a form of last dich billet/club?

    • @JonathanFergusonRoyalArmouries
      @JonathanFergusonRoyalArmouries วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      Probably - but no more or less than any other curved muzzleloading pistol really. It would work better than some being that shape, and I do think martial pistols retained a club shape for "clubbing your pistol", but very few pistols are truly specialised for the purpose with a so-called "skull-cracker" buttcap. More fashion and period ideas of ergonomics I think.

    • @Chris_Garman
      @Chris_Garman 19 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Originally, yes. Most were likely only intended as decoration though.

  • @greyareaRK1
    @greyareaRK1 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    Violence among The Borrowers is rare, but not unheard of.

  • @kbjerke
    @kbjerke วันที่ผ่านมา

    I would *love* to receive that for a stocking stuffer!! Thanks for the video, Jonathan! 👍

  • @noth606
    @noth606 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I once had a set of miniature guns, bought in Italy, one of them was a Sten subgun set up to fire a primer I think, this was nearly 40yrs ago and I've long since lost them and don't remember the detail exactly, but the other was a sort of webley looking single primer shot affair. They had been made immediately post WW2 from what I remember the shop owner explaining to me, intended to be sold to a british soldier to take home. I think he said he had a US equivalent of it earlier that he had already sold.
    The things did have actual barrels that were bored through but of about 2/3 the diameter of a .22 and they were made of steel. My guess is that with the right kind of primer you could have shot some paper wad or clay or something out of them to support your claim of them being "real guns" heh. They stood out to me because they were not plugged like toy guns always are, and the sort of plaque and paperwork they came with did not look at all like something really intended for a child to play with as a toy, they gave me more the sense of these being meant to be on a wall of some office and for the office occupant to brag about where they were in the war and show miniatures of their wartime guns. They were finished like a real gun etc, not painted like toys are.
    Wish I remembered more about them, I did show the Sten to a gunsmith friend once who immediately wanted to buy it heh

  • @PLAYINGAROUND
    @PLAYINGAROUND วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    The title of this episode should have been "This one is small. This one is far, far away" 🤣

  • @dpeter6396
    @dpeter6396 วันที่ผ่านมา

    PLEASE enable the closed captions!! I have bad hearing and I love your program!! Thanks.

    • @RoyalArmouriesMuseum
      @RoyalArmouriesMuseum  วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      Thanks for flagging this, TH-cam automatically generates them (we haven't turned them off they just haven't been generated yet because of processing times and video length etc.) In the meantime we've added some manually. Hope this helps.

    • @dpeter6396
      @dpeter6396 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@RoyalArmouriesMuseum Thank you, I had no idea that UTube generated those sub-titles. I'll be a bit more patient.......

  • @napalmholocaust9093
    @napalmholocaust9093 23 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    I'd use a precious stone instead of flint. Jade would make it more functional, or the sapphire group stones.

  • @Nemo2342
    @Nemo2342 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Disappointed that the small gun didn't also have a note from the previous owner stored in the barrel

  • @marvindebot3264
    @marvindebot3264 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    That miniature is beautiful, I'd pay good money to have that made.

  • @johnanon6938
    @johnanon6938 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I'm absolutely positive a cased pair of that miniature would easily fit in a Christmas stocking.

  • @NathanielSimpson1481
    @NathanielSimpson1481 20 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    This reminded me of the Purdy shotguns from the Queen Mary's dolls' house (currently in the Royal Collection Trust at Windsor)

  • @DirtyHairy1
    @DirtyHairy1 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    Jonathan: Tosses the piece of paper into the bin
    Internet Firearms Weeb: I will pay 5000 bucks for this

  • @johnanon6938
    @johnanon6938 วันที่ผ่านมา

    When Jonathan first found the scroll I was already typing - Rumor is Jonathan did find a pirate map and that's why he didn't show it on camera.
    But then they showed it on camera, still finding it was a great bit of fun for everyone's imagination! Ha ha ha! :D

  • @johnturner4400
    @johnturner4400 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    Personally, I always use packing tape to fix my Christmas decorations in place…

    • @RoyalArmouriesMuseum
      @RoyalArmouriesMuseum  วันที่ผ่านมา +6

      It's the tape that would least leave a mark on their brand new racking ;)

    • @johnturner4400
      @johnturner4400 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@RoyalArmouriesMuseumgood luck with that.😊

  • @capt.bart.roberts4975
    @capt.bart.roberts4975 16 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Cute! I've an even smaller watch fob, a caplock, bird shot, black powder, sized gun.

    • @capt.bart.roberts4975
      @capt.bart.roberts4975 16 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      I still wish I could own a Kolibri Auto.

  • @Chris_Garman
    @Chris_Garman 19 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    An American drill bit manufacturer sent their tiniest drill bit to a Chinese competitor to show off. The Chinese manufacturer drilled a hole down the center of the tiny bit and sent it back. It's all about showing off.

    • @NM-wd7kx
      @NM-wd7kx 18 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      That's some Robin Hood splitting an arrow tier showmanship, frankly, I applaud it

  • @F1ghteR41
    @F1ghteR41 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    So we're back to Christmas pistols, I see! It's a pity that the old video isn't around anymore.
    0:15 Why is it called 'Queen Anne', if it's from the mid-eighteenth century? Is it some sort of 'Queen Anne is dead' joke, or was this style in vogue still decades after?
    0:33 There was no such post here on YT for some reason.
    2:52 Some of them were quite significant, to the point that the most junior officer ranks in some militaries was reportedly named after cornet.
    11:37 Nice touch including the whole process.
    15:46 What does it mean to be made free of the Gunmakers Company exactly?

    • @JonathanFergusonRoyalArmouries
      @JonathanFergusonRoyalArmouries วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      0:15 - collector's term, based on the period where they first become popular, just within her reign.
      15:46 - I probably should have clarified that - it means you're free to operate commercially as a gunmaker rather than being an apprentice or other underling of one.

    • @F1ghteR41
      @F1ghteR41 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@JonathanFergusonRoyalArmouries Ah, I see, thanks for clarification!

  • @randyhavard6084
    @randyhavard6084 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I'd like to have a miniature version that is a cap lock. I'll bet you could shoot light projectiles with just the percussion cap

  • @barbarossarotbart
    @barbarossarotbart วันที่ผ่านมา

    I've heard that in the 16th century arms dealers used fully functional miniature cannons to demonstrate their products to potentional customers.

  • @Chaosrain112
    @Chaosrain112 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The Rule of Cool has been around for a long, long time for this thing to exist. "Because it's cool."

  • @traviswilliams3209
    @traviswilliams3209 วันที่ผ่านมา

    be cool to see a zoom fade with the little gun gandolfed up close to appear identical size

  • @derekp2674
    @derekp2674 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thanks very much Jonathan and team. Both of those pistols look exquisite.
    PS - don't you have to carefully heat the concealed parchment in a candle flame to reveal the secret writing and the location of the treasure?

    • @johnladuke6475
      @johnladuke6475 22 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      Well you don't do that _on camera,_ you play it off like it's nothing and gather your friends at midnight in a secret location. Don't forget the crotchety old person who knows exactly how to plan every operation but insists it will never work, and of course you have to invite the fresh-faced young newbie who needs everything about treasure-hunting explained to them in detail.

  • @30LayersOfKevlar
    @30LayersOfKevlar วันที่ผ่านมา

    Have you ever had any other discoveries like this? Note stashed in case or in handgun itself. Some kind of inscription that had to be deciphered?

  • @willmarotta4525
    @willmarotta4525 19 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Hidden items found later in museum…. There is a rocket/space museum in Kansas, USA. German rocket parts. Some time around, 2000, I think some paper work related to quality control was discovered inside the body of some rocket hardware. Some, 50 years after removal from Germany.

  • @danieljob3184
    @danieljob3184 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Looks like a Proof of Craftsmanship piece. The kind of thing they had before mass media advertising.

  • @johnhodges8264
    @johnhodges8264 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    It's not sparks from the flint as in a cigarette lighter but shards of white hot steel scrapped from the frizzen.

    • @JonathanFergusonRoyalArmouries
      @JonathanFergusonRoyalArmouries วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Did I say otherwise?

    • @johnhodges8264
      @johnhodges8264 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@JonathanFergusonRoyalArmouries Yes, you said sparks from the flint. They sell carbide "Flints" that are hard enought to scrape shards of metal from the frizzen, sorry about being perdantic but many gunt people don't know this.

  • @Garsty
    @Garsty วันที่ผ่านมา

    Im with the cameraman,that was so close to being a epic moment in history 😅

  • @PieterBreda
    @PieterBreda วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    Yeah, you're not scaring anybody with that.

    • @legendofkelamentura
      @legendofkelamentura วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      Maybe a Borrower or Stuart Little?

    • @twestgard2
      @twestgard2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I still don’t want it in my eye.

  • @williamhart4896
    @williamhart4896 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I'd happily take the little one as a stocking stuffer

  • @Yandarval
    @Yandarval วันที่ผ่านมา

    Come now, Johnathan. Every gun collector knows that Wilson was the gun maker for Tom Thumb, duelist extraordinaire. Calls himself a firearms expert "wanders off muttering". 😜

  • @stevewatson6839
    @stevewatson6839 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Very cosy this. I should really watch it and read the chat with a glass or three of mulled wine!

  • @capt.bart.roberts4975
    @capt.bart.roberts4975 16 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Could it be flash powder operated, or would the pressure be too much?

  • @mossydog2385
    @mossydog2385 20 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    Johnathan, just so you know, the "like" is not working on this video.... which I enjoyed very much.

  • @legendofkelamentura
    @legendofkelamentura วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    Once again the editors’s putting in a shift 😂

  • @AdelaideRegiment
    @AdelaideRegiment วันที่ผ่านมา

    They're actually a matched pair, but someone left one in their pocket when they put it through the wash.

  • @charlesfuzak
    @charlesfuzak วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Call Me Kevin's dad seems like a pretty cool guy.

  • @nilo70
    @nilo70 วันที่ผ่านมา

    When he first sat down I thought thats it on his lapel !

  • @LiveDonkeyDeadLion
    @LiveDonkeyDeadLion วันที่ผ่านมา

    I wonder if this is like those mini Japanese matchlock pistols, or even those pin fire keyring pistols in the US. Something that could fire, if you really want to, but otherwise just to show off with

  • @Buggsy1061
    @Buggsy1061 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Have you done a history of 19th century American firearms in Europe? I've always wondered if they were popular over here?

  • @greycatturtle7132
    @greycatturtle7132 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Very cool

  • @johnmc8785
    @johnmc8785 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    I would suppose that this was a "boast piece" made to show off the skill and precision of the gun maker.

  • @Max_Flashheart
    @Max_Flashheart วันที่ผ่านมา

    That was great!

  • @ukrattus
    @ukrattus วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Come on Jonathan, from the size and the face on the butt cap, it must be a commission for Baron Greenback! Crikey DM!

  • @Kumimono
    @Kumimono วันที่ผ่านมา

    One wonders if something like this would have been a, show-off, for a watchmaker. Or, a somewhat functional thingy, to light up a cigar...
    It's a funny thing, Jonathan of 2124 would find that paper far more interesting.

  • @MusikAstronaut
    @MusikAstronaut วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Imagine being GameSpot and firing this guy

  • @aeloswindrunner
    @aeloswindrunner 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Good job with the sneaky quick memes Editor :p

  • @davzinzan
    @davzinzan วันที่ผ่านมา

    Will you ever do a video on the Farquhar-Hill?

  • @Matze-c1j
    @Matze-c1j วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    4:25 So daddy flintlock went to the store to buy cigarettes and never came home, leaving poor mommy flintlock and baby flintlock all alone?

  • @WilksGRendai
    @WilksGRendai วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I feel a re-watch of Plunkett and Mcleane coming on…

  • @nekokonata
    @nekokonata วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I guess it could work for pest control... in theory, or gnome warfare.

  • @FryingTiger
    @FryingTiger วันที่ผ่านมา

    OG Goat Gun.

  • @HelenBrown-d5k
    @HelenBrown-d5k 16 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    You're doing a fantastic job! Could you help me with something unrelated: I have a SafePal wallet with USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). How should I go about transferring them to Binance?

  • @otakubancho6655
    @otakubancho6655 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Was it made by Colibri,perhaps?

  • @Calum_S
    @Calum_S วันที่ผ่านมา

    Anyone else say "I don't believe it!" at the mention of Richard Wilson?

  • @janemauer51
    @janemauer51 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Why not do an episode on miniature firearms

  • @ThomasFilbert
    @ThomasFilbert วันที่ผ่านมา

    Some would say it's of average size

  • @dannyw1579
    @dannyw1579 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Is it actually a miniature, or is it just very far away?

    • @JonathanFergusonRoyalArmouries
      @JonathanFergusonRoyalArmouries วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      I REALLY wanted to do the Father Ted thing but it was technically beyond us on the day (only poor Josh running three cameras and sound!). I should have at least referenced it though...

    • @dannyw1579
      @dannyw1579 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @JonathanFergusonRoyalArmouries but would ye be Ted or Dougal?

    • @JonathanFergusonRoyalArmouries
      @JonathanFergusonRoyalArmouries วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      @@dannyw1579 Some days you're Ted, some you're Dougal. And occasionally, Jack.

  • @ZackRToler
    @ZackRToler วันที่ผ่านมา

    This is the kind of weapon I imagine Mister uses in Critical Role C3 that's loaded with flaming poo shots (he's a fire elemental monkey)

    • @RoyalArmouriesMuseum
      @RoyalArmouriesMuseum  19 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      I could also see Nott using it too...

  • @StacheMan26
    @StacheMan26 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    No captions for this vid? Or is that youtube messing up

    • @RoyalArmouriesMuseum
      @RoyalArmouriesMuseum  วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      We've recently changed the codec/bitrate of the videos to deliver the highest quality but it may take TH-cam a bit longer to process, hopefully they'll be added soon.
      EDIT: Looks like they still haven't been generated yet, so we've added some manually until then.

    • @F1ghteR41
      @F1ghteR41 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@RoyalArmouriesMuseum And the quality is definitely here to be seen. It helps a lot when there are such tiny details as here.

    • @RoyalArmouriesMuseum
      @RoyalArmouriesMuseum  วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      @@F1ghteR41 We appreciate that!

  • @alexleblanc4202
    @alexleblanc4202 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I'd bet it was a gag gift, from somebody with a lot of money and a sick and twisted mind. Imagine:
    "Happy Birthday! I got you a pistol, just like you wanted. One of those new ones with the threaded barrel." (Pulls out full-size pistol case and hands it over)
    "REALLY?! AWESOME!" (Excitedly opens case to reveal what's TECHNICALLY a fully functioning pistol) "Oh, COME ON!"

  • @gerald5344
    @gerald5344 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Looks like that gat had a gitten.

  • @julianshepherd2038
    @julianshepherd2038 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    Careful, you could have someone's eye out with that.

    • @samovarsa2640
      @samovarsa2640 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      What, with eyestrain?

  • @marqsee7948
    @marqsee7948 8 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    'Darling, the baby's shot the nanny again!'
    'Oh pishtosh dear, don't make such a fuss! It's only a poke, a little dribble. I've had worse in war games. It toughens them up!''

  • @michaelhicks6699
    @michaelhicks6699 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    "honey, i shrank the pistol"?

  • @mrmurphy172
    @mrmurphy172 วันที่ผ่านมา

    A Kolibri before Kolibri 😅

  • @johnladuke6475
    @johnladuke6475 23 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Jonathan's pretending that it can't be fired because the sear is worn, the flint might not spark, the powder won't be fine enough, every excuse he can think of. In reality it's because nobody at the Armouries is confident in firing such a powerful pistol, and they're not even sure they have a range that can handle the blast.

  • @polymathart
    @polymathart วันที่ผ่านมา

    Flintlock Kolibri

  • @matg919
    @matg919 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I want 1.

  • @jjforcebreaker
    @jjforcebreaker วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Cute. CUTE!

  • @brucecook502
    @brucecook502 วันที่ผ่านมา

    😎

  • @coreyortiz7149
    @coreyortiz7149 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    When in doubt, pinky out!

  • @mrunique4871
    @mrunique4871 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Well , you know what they say about men with small hands , they use small guns 😂

  • @Mountain-Man-3000
    @Mountain-Man-3000 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Folks. Those "decorations". I hope that was last minute for the video. LoL

  • @NMN
    @NMN วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Pin this one to your other lapel, sorted :)

  • @S7AINLESS
    @S7AINLESS วันที่ผ่านมา

    I choose to believe this was commissioned for some jokesters pet monkey, you can't disprove my theory!

  • @tomcardale5596
    @tomcardale5596 วันที่ผ่านมา

    That's seriously cute

  • @ferdinand12390
    @ferdinand12390 วันที่ผ่านมา

    What is this?
    a flintlock for ants?!

  • @bobskool
    @bobskool วันที่ผ่านมา

    Polly Pocket Pistol

  • @mats7492
    @mats7492 วันที่ผ่านมา

    For an army of mouse

  • @chasm9296
    @chasm9296 วันที่ผ่านมา

    What is this? A gun for ants?

  • @lawrencemartin1113
    @lawrencemartin1113 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    But wait!....what's this I see rolled up and stuffed inside the tiny barrel of the tiny pistol! ?.....an exact tiny copy of the piece of paper with the note from the previous owner, stating it belonged to his grandfather!! 😮
    You should wear it as a lapel badge! 😊
    Oh....and by the way, a pleading request: I have synesthesia and the colour of those awful gloves you wear, give me the equivalent of an ice cream headache!! Please change them as it makes watching your lovely videos unbearable!
    Purple was ok.....black? Anything other than that horrid greenish turquoise blue nightmare! 😂😢

    • @JonathanFergusonRoyalArmouries
      @JonathanFergusonRoyalArmouries วันที่ผ่านมา +6

      I'm sorry to hear that - we had complaints about the blue (they are actually light blue) gloves previously and they tear far too easily. I would love black but it would make the guns/parts harder to see :( Is there any consistency between the experience of sufferers? If we found a different colour would it affect someone else as badly? Probably not a fair question to ask.

  • @JeffEbe-te2xs
    @JeffEbe-te2xs วันที่ผ่านมา

    Child’s?

    • @JonathanFergusonRoyalArmouries
      @JonathanFergusonRoyalArmouries วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      Too small even for a child to actually 'use' - and probably too expensive... But perhaps for a wealthy one...