Taking a look at an oddball trigger-less key pistol (VIDEO)

โ€œIf there is a thing, someone has made a gun out of that thing,โ€ says Ian with Forgotten Weapons as he shows off his key ring with a kick.

Theorized to belong to a prison warden, the key only has a touch hole to set off the black powder charge in the chamber. The idea is the shooter would set it off with the cherry of a cigar.

The gun is being sold with three other antique percussion pocket pistols in one lot next week through Rock Island Auction Company with a combined estimated value of $1100-1700.

Cigar not included.

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