Is this a clone? double action .32

[acossey]

Thanks for the help with this and my other post of the new model three. This looks like a smith and wesson but I don't know. The barrel says

Smith and Wesson cartriges manuf. by Winn. repp co.
are those that fit best the Euskar revolver may...

and thats all I can make out.

The cylinder is 1-1/4 long and the opening at the end of the barrel is 5/16"

It was missing a screw in the frame. An 8-32 fit in perfectly without any forcing. (just temp.)


I don't see any serial numbers on it. Any thoughts???

 

[acossey]

Thanks for the help with this and my other post of the new model three. This looks like a smith and wesson but I don't know. The barrel says

Smith and Wesson cartriges manuf. by Winn. repp co.
are those that fit best the Euskar revolver may...

and thats all I can make out.

The cylinder is 1-1/4 long and the opening at the end of the barrel is 5/16"

It was missing a screw in the frame. An 8-32 fit in perfectly without any forcing. (just temp.)


I don't see any serial numbers on it. Any thoughts???

 

[deadin]

The monogram looks like Guisasola Hermanos of Eibar, Spain.

 

[opoefc]

Dean is correct as to the firm who's logo is on the revolver. The gun was made in the Basque area of NW Spain, a center of many arms makers who cloned Colt & S&W revolvers. Euskar is a Basque word that roughly translates to "weapon"

 

[acossey]

Thats interesting. My wife is 100 percent basque. I had asked her last night if she recognized the word euskar. She didn't but will look it up today. Thanks for the help. I imagine that the value would be pretty low probably under 75.00 what do you guys think?

 

[deadin]

I imagine that the value would be pretty low probably under 75.00 what do you guys think?

I don't know, replace that wood screw in the side plate with something a little closer to the original and, if it's tight, it could bring $100-150 or so. The pearls look nice.

 

[opoefc]

I would agree with Dean that $100- $150 should be about right, however if I was a serious collector of S&W Lemon Squeezers, I might pay a little more just because of the novelty of having a Spanish clone to display, and if the nice pearl grips fit on a real S&W, they are worth close to that by themselves. -- Somewhere in the past, I remember a discussion about the "Euskar" lable being a Basque term for a firearm, however I'm not Basque and that info. is subject to interpretation. It appears on more than one example of firearms from MW Spain area. Ed.

 

[acossey]

I left a message for a basque historian I know. I would like to get the definate meaning of the word.

Thanks for all your input.

 

[acossey]

Ok got the info on the word. Euskar is short for Euskara which means "Basque" He also confirms a lot of guns being made in that area and in fact his father worked in a small handgun factory in Eibar spain. Small world

 

[opoefc]

acossey, As you say - Small World! I knew the term had something to do with meaning a firearm labled Euskar came from the Basque area of Spain, where many Spanish firearms were,and still are, made. Basque are a very proud people and don't consider themselves as Spaniards, as you probably well know, having married a Basque lady. Putting a "Made in Spain" stamping on a Euskara gun would have never happened! They did make many copies of various S&W firearms - Doug Wesson once visited one of the bigger gun makers factory in Eibar and they showed him a copy of the S&W Triple Lock they were making. Doug said it was every bit as good as any made by S&W. I have examined many Eibar area made S&W copies over the years and some of them had engineering advances that S&W didn't add for years after. I also seen an awful lot of junk copies that would have difficulty fooling a blind man. Ed.

 

[acossey]

Sure is fun looking up this old stuff. Thanks for the help.