![]() They began manufacturing small, personal defense weapons, a very popular item at the time, and also using their manufacturing machinery for any and all tasks they could find. The two were not disheartened, but instead went on to make the most lemonade as possible from the lemons life had given them. Unfortunately, the popularity of the pepperbox plummeted after the Civil War thanks to the rise of the fixed-barrel revolving cylinder hand guns (a.k.a. Their primary purpose was to improve on the design of the pepperbox revolver with which they were both so familiar. After the Civil War, IJ would partner with a man named Martin Bye to form the Johnson & Bye Gunsmiths right there in Worcester. While working for Allen & Wheellock, he would primarily work on pepperbox revolvers. ![]()
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