What is It? Game 28.

It is a pocket gun

Looks like an old-fashioned belt-punch to me. For punching holes in a leather belt.

puncher made in chicago, obviously

it’s a palm gun

perhaps a secret gun that’s hidden in a compartment of a matchbox?

That would be the world’s first HDD!

It looks a bit like a lighter to me. The rough part in the middle looks like it would strike a spark from a flint.

It’s a pocket gun

It is a palm pistol.

Chicago Palm Pistol

It looks like the internal structure of an old-fashioned doorknob.

Wow, finally a What Is It that I actually know about (although I’m not the first with the correct answer). It’s a pocket pistol. It’s pictured in one of my firearms history books around here somewhere.

it is a mini hand gun. that can be easily concealed

Its a gun

Others beat me to it, but it is a gun.

I think this type of pistol was used in the assasination of president Garfield or McKinley, I’m not sure which one.

it is a small gun used in espionage or assassinations called a lemon squeezer.

It is a “Lemon Squeezer” palm pistol, the same type suspected to be used to assassinate Pres. William McKinley.

It is a 32 caliber pistol. Manufactured by the Chicago Fire Arms Co. The model name is “Protector”, patented in 1883.

It’s an authentic Victorian compactable pizza cutterwheel. Used in olden Italy during the early 1800s.

It is a “turret pistol.” It holds seven cartridges. This gun is cocked by squeezing in the lever sticking out on the right, and is fired by pressing a small trigger lever just under the barrel. What appears to be an abrasive wheel in the center is a knurled inset that the user rests their thumb against to steady the gun when cocking and firing.

You would place the gun in the palm of the right hand, with the curved lever against the heel of the hand. Then wrap your fingers around it with the barrel protruding between the index and middle finger.

It’s a safe combination chamber.

It´s a pocket gun

Its a secret gun hidden in a matchbox

This is a russian made hand cruppler. A Weevolint inspector uses this small device to make a nonsymetrical hole from which to draw a sample for semi-destructive testing. The device had to be small so that it could be concealed from the Weevolint, else drastic violence may ensue. Weevolints were finally made extinct during the Bavarian Ice riots of 1932.

It,s easy, it,s a minneapolis protecter (1883)
It was made in 3 cal.,s 32 center fire/32 rim fire and a very uniqe 22 bb cap rim fire.
I would love to owne one but they cost to much for me!