Did Belle Starr use a Smith & Wesson???

[Richochet]

Strange but true. I am related to Belle Starr on my Mother's side of the family. When I was a kid, my grand mother kept a nickeled and engraved S & W .32 cal. Model 1 (I think) that was handed down from her mother who related to Belle Starr's daughter.

The revolver disappeared when my grand mother passed away.

Wish I had inherited it!

Dang!

 

[Kurusu]

If you look closely at the trigger guard, you will find out the revolver in the picture is neither a #3 American nor a #3 Russian. It is a Smith & Wesson 44 fdouble action first model. Belle Starr was known to have owned one of those, and that ix what's in the photo.

Saddly I don't have one to show. So I'll just show a representative picture of one found online.

 

[filipows]

I would say it looks like a Morgan horse.

The real horse of the west

 

[Texas Star]

If you look closely at the trigger guard, you will find out the revolver in the picture is neither a #3 American nor a #3 Russian. It is a Smith & Wesson 44 fdouble action first model. Belle Starr was known to have owned one of those, and that ix what's in the photo.

Saddly I don't have one to show. So I'll just show a representative picture of one found online.

Mario-

I think you're right. The trigger guard is distinctive.

I think what looks like a Russian frame knuckle is something in the background, not part of the gun.

But the holster does seem contoured for a Russian or a Schofield.

There's a picture of Sasha Siemel with a cross draw flap holster that looks as if he may be wearing a top - break gun, not a hand ejector, based on holster shape. But by the 1920's, he more likely had a Second or Third Model .44. He didn't even arrive in Brazil from Latvia until 1917.

He never ID'd the model; just said he wore S&W .44's. Probably had several. He became a friend of Doug Wesson, so might have known about the Third Model, not catalogued then.

It's interesting to determine which guns famous people carried.

 

[panther]

I live near Carthage, Mo. where Belle was born. There's a plaque in the sidewalk on the square that marks where her home was.