William Billinghurst (1807-1880) of Rochester, New York, was one of the most famous firearms makers of his day, producing revolving rifles, shotguns, and a few over/under combination shotgun/rifles like this, in both pill lock and percussion. The cylinder is manually rotated by releasing a latch mounted on the bottom of the barrels ahead of the cylinder. The barrel has a small blade front sight and a notch rear sight and is signed "W. BILLINGHURST, ROCHESTER,N.Y." on top at the breech. The seven-shot cylinder is finely serrated for easier grip. The niter blue finished hammer has scroll and border engraving. The smooth walnut straight grip stock has a checkered wrist and smooth steel buttplate. Wooden ramrods mounted on both sides of the barrels. Front trigger for the upper hammer, rear trigger for the bottom hammer. 27 1/4 inch round rifled upper barrel measuring at approximately .46 caliber, 30 1/2 inch centrally located 12 gauge smoothbore shotgun barrel that the cylinder revolves around, similar to the LeMat revolvers of the time. Provenance: The Charles Marx Collection