You speak American?

[Watchdog]

Well, shoot. Almost six years after the original post, and I've added my name to the list of people waiting to hear the story!

What a gun. Those ivory stocks will bring tears to your eyes, won't they?

I believe the word "deadly" would apply to this revolver.

 

[haggis]

I believe that "deadly" would apply to the man that wielded it.

Buck

 

[Hoosier45]

Lee,
Did you ever get more information on this American? I stumbled across this thread and am also intrigued about its history.

 

[epj]

Yes.
The gun came from his family. I'll tell it all when I get more provenance in hand.

Nearly seven years have passed. We're still waiting.

 

[sspierce8]

Nice. I have a first issue US, but no ammo. That's nice you have the ammo to display with it. I would love to have 6 rounds. Great piece.

 

[SportySpiceFan]

Hello mR. Administrator,

I've had to go back at those photos so many times and stare at them.. that's the exact sixgun I still hope finding someday, without having to bargain with my fiancèe..
A fantastic, right amount of mix: used condition, and kinda sexual appealing from that largely remaining nickkel... My compliments, think you must be super-proud owning it.

In absolute terms (speaking for myself of course) being my tastes and interests rather - say - various, just two things could presently beat that American - 1), still one more live concert of goddess singer Melanie Chisholm (former 'Sporty Spice') with me again in the third row of the crowd, and 2) finding a certain model of high-altitude US helmet from the late '50s, to finally end my small collection of military aviators' equipments.

Well, #1 is still possible (would be the seventh instance), #2 borders the impossible, and an American sixgun like your's who knows?, but I see it pretty well hard to do.

Tastes are tastes ah ah.. but, a fantastic revolver obviously.
Greetings from this horribly rainy (as of today, 10 days non-stop) corner of North-Western Italy. Ciao - Franco.

 

[handejector]

Lee,
Did you ever get more information on this American? I stumbled across this thread and am also intrigued about its history.

Do you have the lawmans name? Perhaps someone knows more about him.

Yes.
The gun came from his family. I'll tell it all when I get more provenance in hand.

Nearly seven years have passed. We're still waiting.

Sorry!
I forgot about this thread.


The data I have is now added to Post #1.

 

[ISCS Yoda]

Fascinating! The thread precedes my join date so I am glad I got to see it. Thanks, Lee!

 

[6518John]

One thread like this is worth the price of admission for an entire year! Simply amazing.

 

[Watchdog]

So you sold it. Are you still in contact with the buyer? Just wondering if he did any further research on the gun over the years.

I'm sure the price he paid made it worth your while, but it would have been hard for me to let go of something like that.

 

[handejector]

I never saw the buyer again.

 

[iby]

The Deputy would have been 16 yrs old at the time of the Kid's death and the gun would have been unsold for 7 yrs if he bought it new.
Hmmmm

 

[handejector]

The Deputy would have been 16 yrs old at the time of the Kid's death and the gun would have been unsold for 7 yrs if he bought it new.
Hmmmm

You failed math, right?
The Kid was actually killed on Joseph's 22nd birthday!
He was about 2 months older than the kid.


Joseph was a few months short of 15 when the gun probably shipped to the Distributor Robinson in New York in 1874. I don't know if he truly bought it new or not. I also don't know how long it took Robinson to sell 40 nickel Americans to individuals, hardware stores, gun shops, and general stores across the continent. I also don't know how long it took those stores to sell a nickel gun with ivory grips.


Maybe he was 15 when he bought it. Maybe he was 17. I don't know.
I do know that I bought TWO guns (with MY money) when I was 14, but Bob Berryman DID make my Mom step inside the store both times to take possession.

 

[The Gila Bender]

Thanks for the update Lee. I'd give that old American a good home here in the Great American Southwest, if given the opportunity.

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[mm93]

Back in that era 15 yrs. old was not like 15 yrs. old is today. A young man could be married and out on his own at that age. He surely could be working and earning money at that age.
It's a really great gun, and I'd love to own it, or one like it myself!

 

[joeintexas]

If that fine piece could only talk. I bet a bunch of us would listen.

 

[JSR III]

This is such a cool gun and story it deserves to rise again. Anyone have any info to add. Maybe it was sold to a currewnt forum member.

 

[dingomann]

Very interesting gun and story. It seems unusual to me to place notches on steel like that; you can see what a mess it makes. It is much simpler and neater to notch the handles. Each notch is an X, perhaps? Weird.
My Model 28 has 42 notches around the butt (target grips) and I made each one with a few strokes of a hacksaw. Each notch is for a deer. I shot the last one in 2012.
Just because a gun is notched doesn't mean it was used to shoot somebody.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

Just because a gun is notched doesn't mean it was used to shoot somebody.

In the context of when that gun is from, you are quite the optimist!

Ivan

My wife and I were just discussing a local letter carrier in the 1970's and 80's that sold his 32 revolver to the gun shop he bought it from (when he retired). It had 7 notches cut into the frame butt (had to remove the grips to do that). Those notches represented 7 dogs that threatened him with fangs! ITB