This Miller patent/Billinghurst style revolving rifle is adapted for use with percussion caps rather than the usual pill primers. The cylinder is inscribed "H. VULPIUS." This is likely for Herman Vulpius (listed as Volpius in some references) who was active as a gunsmith around the 1860s-1870s in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Pottsville, Pennsylvania. The rifle has a German silver blade front sight in a dovetail right near the muzzle, a blank in a dovetail 8 inches back from the muzzle, and a peep sight with a 8 1/4 inch long base fitted via a dovetail near the breech end of the barrel and an elevation adjustment screw threaded into the upper tang. The back action lock has some light scroll engraving that was mostly filed off when the lock was modified, an empty tap towards the front, and added iron at the front to fit the lock to the breech plate. Provenance: The Mark Aziz Collection; Property of a Gentleman

Good as period modified (including a shortened barrel) with mostly dark brown and gray patina, some minor oxidation, filing marks, and general mild wear throughout. The wood is also good and has some scattered dings and scratches, small flakes and some repairs around the lock, and some other small slivers absent at the edges. The cylinder is currently frozen, and one nipple is currently absent, although the replacement lock and the trigger function fine.