Francois Alexandre sometimes given as Jean Alexandre François Lemat or Le Mat

Career Manufacturer / Trader / Medic

Biography Lemat may not be the maker of this object, but he is described as the inventor. He was based in the southern United States and was a physician who invented this large revolver and later manufactured it in France [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 06/02/2007]

Biography References http://ncmuseumofhistory.org/exhibits/civilwar/artifacts_pistol.html / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemat / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeMat

County No counties listed

Relationship Maker

Archaeological or Ethnographic Ethnography

Date made around 1860-1870?

Dates active 1824-1883

Donated around By 1939 - 1945 [found unentered]

English collections combined percussion revolver and shot-gun

Oxford Uni Education No

Oxford based No

English collection size 1

Connections Henry Balfour