Help IDing this pistol
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Okay, I have the pictures of the pistol. Rather than uploading them here I just made a web page and put it on my sight.
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Any help with this will be greatly appreciated.
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Jerry
It's a .32 Double Action, Second Model (how's that for truth in advertising). It was likely made in the late 1880s and has the appearance of being unfired, or nearly so.
It is much nicer than the average gun found of this era, but this is not my area of value experience so I will leave it to others on the Forum for that information. Hope this is helpful.
SC_Slowhand
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Nice
Great pictures and a beautiful job done in the care and storage of the piece.
Great pictures and a beautiful job done in the care and storage of the piece.
Very much so, Murphydog, or is that Mr. Dog? J/K. It has been fired as there is a little blacking around the exit ports on the cylinder hole. My guess is that 5 round were shot from it once to see if it worked okay. I must stress that is just a guess.
I forgot to ad that the hammer does not stay locked back all the time. Could that be a weak spring? I assume that it would be an easy fix for a gunsmith.
I forgot to ad that the hammer does not stay locked back all the time. Could that be a weak spring? I assume that it would be an easy fix for a gunsmith.
SC_Slowhand
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Your are of course welcome. It doessn't look like a sock drawer storage and some one knew what they were doing in caring for it.
I have a nice collection of originals and replicas that people have bought fired maybe one time, cleaned and put away for decades. Others that were never fired and sold later on by someone who inherited it.
At least it didn't wind up as a wall hanger. No doubt you will continue to treasure it.
My collection is going to either my neice or one of the grandsons which ever shows an appreciation of the responsibility.
Nice old top-break revolver. I think I would date it closer to the early 1880s than later in the decade, but it kind of doesn't matter for a specimen as nice as this one.
Value for insurance purposes? If one like this in operating condition went up for auction, I'd expect it to go for at least $350. Well used top breaks can be had for $150-200, but the price goes up to reflect better condition. It would be worth a lot more than that to you, of course, because of the family association. As to the problem with the action, that could be a spring problem or something else. A gunsmith should be able to put it back in reliable working condition.
(I don't follow these older models as closely as I do the later hand ejector models, so I could be way off on value; if so, others will correct me.)
Value for insurance purposes? If one like this in operating condition went up for auction, I'd expect it to go for at least $350. Well used top breaks can be had for $150-200, but the price goes up to reflect better condition. It would be worth a lot more than that to you, of course, because of the family association. As to the problem with the action, that could be a spring problem or something else. A gunsmith should be able to put it back in reliable working condition.
(I don't follow these older models as closely as I do the later hand ejector models, so I could be way off on value; if so, others will correct me.)
Actually, I want to sell it and was just trying to get a fair price for both parties.
I don't have any kids and no grandkids. My Nice's and nephews would not care for anything I've got. I never hear from them and only occasionally from my sisters. So it might as well go to a good home as end up in an auction around here. My wife and are cleaning out our stuff to simplify our lives. Our health is not the best and no point of putting it off until a court appoints someone to run our lives.
I don't have any kids and no grandkids. My Nice's and nephews would not care for anything I've got. I never hear from them and only occasionally from my sisters. So it might as well go to a good home as end up in an auction around here. My wife and are cleaning out our stuff to simplify our lives. Our health is not the best and no point of putting it off until a court appoints someone to run our lives.
deadin
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Jbs,
No. you are correct! Everybody else needs correcting
(Looks like somebody looked up the serial for a .38 DA 2nd Model..
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No. you are correct! Everybody else needs correcting
(Looks like somebody looked up the serial for a .38 DA 2nd Model..
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