32 help please

[martincooper35]

I have a 32 that my dad had put up he has passed and I dont know anything about it all i have is 32 cal s&w lg left side of barrel 2618 made in germany on the right side of barrel, flip open on right side with pushrod shell eject cream grips with yellow and black circle emblem at top of grip. single action with serstenberger ueberwein sussenstadt ingraved also on left side below hammer and right of trigger cant get pics to download please help

 

[Jim Watson]

If that might be Gerstenberger u Eberwein, Gussenstadt, it is one of the many cheap European guns sold here before GCA 1968 cut off importation.
One of their brand names was Em-Gee which is right in there with RG.

Resale value is very low, but it is a memento of your Dad.

 

[glowe]

Welcome to the Forum. Pictures would be very helpful, but it does sound like a European copy. What is the "emblem" on the medallion in the top of the stocks? Since the black color could be patina over gold washed medallions, I am just wondering if the emblem is S&W? If so, you may have a set of S&W ivory stocks that are valuable. If not, the value of the revolver will probably be low.

 

[twaits]

This is another "RG" type of revolver. I did an image search for the name the OP posted and came up with this.
This one is double action but most of these German revolver companies also made them SA.

 

[DWalt]

Huge numbers of these types of revolvers in .22 and .32 were imported prior to GCA-1968, which stopped their importation. I hardly ever see one today. I wonder what happened to them? There was at least one U.S. maker of similar design cheap revolvers, as I remember, Clerke. Domestically made, Clerke did not have the GCA-1968 problems the imported revolvers had. They all used many die-cast parts, so I imagine most of them broke quickly and were thrown away. These were the so-called "Saturday Night Specials," so reviled by the gun grabbers of the time. They are still with us, unfortunately.
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This is a link to a writeup about the Clerke company I mentioned above: http://www.typicalshooter.com/review-clerke-1st/

 

[martincooper35]

I dont know same base line or what but not the same the barrel is shorter and discharge slide goes all the way out to the end of the barrell

 

[opoefc]

Tom Watson has identified the gun. It's a clone of a Colt SAA system, not the DA revolver pictured by Twaits, They were cheaply made and sold for very little money but were fun plinkers until something broke, which usually wasn't very long after you started shooting them. Ed.

 

[martincooper35]

can anyone tell me where to find parts