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Help identifying a rifle

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Please let me know if anyone knows the year and location of this gun. It has a crown with a R under it on the barrel. Number 22807.
 

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Welcome to TFF. As Hawg stated and so you know what a "parlor gun" actually is:
Flobert guns
In 1845, French inventor Louis Nicolas Flobert modified a percussion cap to hold a small lead bullet. Flobert modified the cap further by creating a rim at the edge so that the cap and bullet could fit in a chamber of a pistol. The round contained no powder and was designed to be a toy. In 1845 Flobert made what he called "parlor guns" for this cartridge, as these rifles and pistols were designed to be shot in indoor shooting parlors in large homes.
 
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