S&W left hand model
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It's easy to reverse a negative. People thought Billy the Kid was a leftie, until someone noticed the loading gate on the wrong side of his Winchester 1873 SRC!
gwpercle
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Didn't Paul Newman star in a movie about Billy..."The Left Handed Gun".
I thought the reversed loading gate in the photo stood out like a sore thumb ...and I'm not that good at catching details .
Maybe Paul Newman was left handed so they just went with it...
After all , it was 1958 Hollywood!
Gary
I thought the reversed loading gate in the photo stood out like a sore thumb ...and I'm not that good at catching details .
Maybe Paul Newman was left handed so they just went with it...
After all , it was 1958 Hollywood!
Gary
Charter Arms makes a left hand model. As a southpaw it confuses the heck out of me.
CptCurl
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It's not simply a reversed negative. The badge is not reversed, and the Winchester in the photograph has its loading gate on the correct side.
The revolver image must be superimposed. Sure looks weird.
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Absalom
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The revolver is most likely a 1940/41 pre-Victory, quite possibly a British Service model, although I can't see anything on the barrel. But the lanyard loop and stocks fix it into the pre-war decade time-wise. So "Old West" my patootie anyways. Those weren't made in a left-handed version. And the layout artist composing the cover needed the gun facing this way rather that that, so ...
Pizza Bob
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Another left-handed Smith...
Adios,
Pizza Bob
Adios,
Pizza Bob
Me too, I learned to handle the revolver, and later the auto loader, the way it came from the factory. When I moved the mag release on my G17 it screwed me up so much I moved it back to the "proper" side of the gun.
Jim Watson
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Is it a photograph at all? Maybe painted in trompe l'oeil style.
Cartridges look like Winchester Lubaloy .38 S&W, so maybe it is a BSR.
Cartridges look like Winchester Lubaloy .38 S&W, so maybe it is a BSR.
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I can't read the barrel rollmark but I'm guessing it reads "nosseW & htimS" 
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Reversed, or "flipped" photos are really common. These two photos of the master, John Browning, have been printed often. One is correct, and one is not. If you are familiar with his .22 semiauto .22, even though he's holding an early one, you will know which is correct.
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And the fact that men's clothing always buttons left side over right...
I can't read the barrel rollmark but I'm guessing it reads "nosseW & htmiS"
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Very rare, I believe that was from a low production run for countries south of the equator where draining water swirls counter clockwise (as opposed to clockwise north of the equator).
Then there's and an even smaller run with the cyl release thumb piece on the top strap for those directly on the equator where the draining water doesn't swirl at all, just goes straight down!
Didn't J&G sales regularly run ads with a reversed negative S&W back in the 1970' - 1980's?
If we are seeing the right side of the revolver from late 1930s, shouldn't it would have had a MADE IN USA stamped under the cylinder. Title tile is always an overlay and the badge could be easily done with a good photo-shop app. My guess is that if this was an overlay, it most likels would have been the entire revolver over the base image??
The reason why the revolver would have almost had to be the overlay and not a simple image reversal, is because Calamity Jane was right handed and reversing the entire image makes her left handed??
I also found Butch Cassidy image.
The reason why the revolver would have almost had to be the overlay and not a simple image reversal, is because Calamity Jane was right handed and reversing the entire image makes her left handed??
I also found Butch Cassidy image.
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