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From Neatorama:

This is the Percival & Smith Repeating Magazine Pistol, patented
in 1850. If I understand the description correctly, the cylinder in the
front holds 24 bullets and the cylinder in the back holds powder and
primer. To chamber a round, the user twists them up, then back down:
After
cocking hammer, both chambers swivel upward 180 degrees allowing lead
ball to fall into breech from front magazine and loose powder into
chamber behind ball from rear magazine; primer pellet also seats itself.
It looks like an advanced version of the Lorenzoni, an amazing gravity-fed seven-shot repeating flintlock pistol designed in the 1680s.
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