Unusual Merwin Hulbert 44-40, pics

[AirCommando]

A local GD has this cool revolver in his display case. Supposedly 1 of 10 made. I did some research about these guns, and they are really cool. Jim Supica did a segment for a firearm museum on these.

Don't know if it's worth the price tag!

 

[mkk41]

Odd yet interesting six shooters they are.

I'd love to see Uberti/Cimarron bring out a replica.

 

[AirCommando]

How about a new one? Check this out!
History of Merwin Hulbert and Company

I'll tell ya, that thing is built like a finely tuned tank, and is heavy!

 

[Wyatt Burp]

I think it's a standard late model M&H pocket D.A. with top strap. But that's like saying that's a "standard" Rolls Royce. I seriosly doubt the "one of ten" thing, but I really think it's unusual that it's blue finish. Whatever the case, it's a highly desireble gun and one of the best made firearms in the history of the planet. So good that blackpowder cartridges of the time might have tied it up real quick due to the close tolerances of the gun. What a gem!

 

[NKJ nut]

No, there were more than 10 made. It is an excellent quality gun but the price tag is outrageous.

 

[feralmerril]

If it was one of ten, what were the odds of a old collector friend of mine years ago of haveing one of the nine left? His was nickle. He also had a smaller folding hammer version.

 

[Thuer]

Looks to my as an thirth model of the Merwin and Hulbert with an Skullcrusher grip. The only thing what is odd is the pinned frontsight.

Nice revolver.

 

[Andy Griffith]

I don't think the new M&H company (a brand of US Firearms) has produced any firearms for sale yet to the public. That website has been up for three years and still no guns.

 

[gunlovingirl]

Is twaits, Erik, still around here? He posted some interesting Merwin Hulberts and info in the antique forum once in awhile.

 

[AirCommando]

but the price tag is outrageous.

Sure is! I'm working him on a trade for a Colt SAA 1st gen he wants $15,000 for. I think it's actual value is around $3,800.

 

[NKJ nut]

Sure is! I'm working him on a trade for a Colt SAA 1st gen he wants $15,000 for. I think it's actual value is around $3,800.

If you are trading it doesn't matter if it's 15 grand, 4 grand or a dollar, provided you get to over price your trade in

 

[Thuer]

This Colt is worked over. Look how the wood is fitting the gripframe.
All edges of the gun are rounded off. They have polished it to dead.

 

[Cavaliere]

It's a 3rd Model Pocket Army in the most common barrel length (3 1/2") and worth, in a pinch, $1,500-$2,000. Asking $10,000+ is a joke.

 

[AirCommando]

This Colt is worked over. Look how the wood is fitting the gripframe.
All edges of the gun are rounded off. They have polished it to dead.

Feels like the grips were thinned down for a smaller hand, fit mine perfectly! You ought to feel the balance and pointability of the gun! No wonder they were so popular!

Right, Thuer! He thinks he did the right thing when he did that! That is my bargining chip!

The gun came into his store by way of a local rancher's grand daughter story. An original gun local to the area interests me. A Colt letter on the gun is applied for and waiting about a month now.

Without reposting a lot of pics, here is a link to my thread about this Colt at the Colt forum...
http://www.coltforum.com/forums/colt-revolvers/37946-1881-7-1-2-nickle-commercial-15-000-a.html

 

[AirCommando]

It's a 3rd Model Pocket Army in the most common barrel length (3 1/2") and worth, in a pinch, $1,500-$2,000. Asking $10,000+ is a joke.

Agreed! Don't know where he is getting his numbers! Unless he thinks it letters to Pancho Villa or somebody like that. They were used around here back then.

 

[Dr.-d]

In my experience with those that ask outrageous prices is either they don't know what they have and expect others not to know either and buy it. They know what they have and want to fool someone.They know what they have and want a Kings ransom anyway.They know what they have and really don't want to sell it.

 

[Maximumbob54]

Maybe he is trying to report each sale as a loss in revenue on his taxes…

I have read that the fitting of parts on the Merwin Hulberts was so precise that they would just about finish closing the action on their own from the steel having a vacuum effect on it. Like most gun mythos I’m betting it is silly talk. But the couple that I have seen were still bank vault tight after all these years. Those were all nickeled guns that very little of the nickel was coming off. And any gun with a “skull crusher” grip is all kinds of fun anyways. I would be tickled each time I got to explain that isn’t just a pinky extension…

 

[AirCommando]

I have read that the fitting of parts on the Merwin Hulberts was so precise that they would just about finish closing the action on their own from the steel having a vacuum effect on it. Like most gun mythos I’m betting it is silly talk.

In my first post I mentioned Jim Supica doing a segment on TV about these guns. Saw it on U tube. When he tries to pull the barrel off, it sucks back into position from vacuum!

 

[feralmerril]

Some of them had folding hammer spurs. They had a nice smooth no snag hammer with the spur flipped forward. Flip it backward, and you could shoot the gun like a single action. I have always thought someone that is a good machinest could make a good liveing if he could make and sell them for the popular snubbies!