{"id":9473,"date":"2017-04-27T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/27\/le-petit-protector-ring-pistol-a-modern-antique\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T16:19:08","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T21:19:08","slug":"le-petit-protector-ring-pistol-a-modern-antique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/27\/le-petit-protector-ring-pistol-a-modern-antique\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Petit Protector Ring Pistol: A Modern Antique"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x3TWp29pdzU?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Sold for $3,738.<\/p>\n<p>Le Petit Protector is a ring pistol, made in both 5 shot\/5mm and 6 shot\/4mm pinfire variations, as well as a smaller version holding 7 rounds of 2mm pinfire, called the \u201cFemme Fatale\u201d. They are mechanically quite simple, with a manually cocked hammer, manually indexed cylinder, and can be reloaded only by removing the cylinder completely. They are made in the aesthetic of 19th century French or Belgian guns, but were actually produced relatively recently.<\/p>\n<p>Some clues to this true manufacture include the English spelling of \u201cProtector\u201d (instead of the French \u201cProtecteur\u201d), the wide variations in fitted case design, the lack of reference to them in books like Winant\u2019s \u201cFirearms Curiosa\u201d, and the fact that they are always found in perfect or nearly perfect condition. If they truly were 150 years old, a substantial proportion of the surviving examples would have significant wear. Just being made recently doesn\u2019t make them less interesting mechanically, though &#8211; someone put in a lot of time and effort to make such small, well-fitted, and smoothly operating guns.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you enjoy Forgotten Weapons, check out its sister channel, InRangeTV! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/InRangeTVShow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/InRangeTVShow<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sold for $3,738. Le Petit Protector is a ring pistol, made in both 5 shot\/5mm and 6 shot\/4mm pinfire variations, as well as a smaller version holding 7 rounds of 2mm pinfire, called the \u201cFemme Fatale\u201d. They are mechanically quite simple, with a manually cocked hammer, manually indexed cylinder, and can be reloaded only by&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/27\/le-petit-protector-ring-pistol-a-modern-antique\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Le Petit Protector Ring Pistol: A Modern Antique<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":9474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14899,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9473\/revisions\/14899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}