More Antique Firearms For Sale
American Firearms
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All my antique firearms are sold as collectors' pieces and are not warranted to be safe to shoot! If you plan to shoot one of them, have it examined by a competent gunsmith first!
Allen and Thurber .36 Caliber Boot Pistol.
Percussion pistol popular with prospectors and adventurers during the gold rush days of the 1850's. Marked with serial number 17 and 424, "Allen & Thurber Worchster Cast Steel" Screw-off barrel, good hardwood grips with a bit of marring at the butt.
$450 SOLD
Colt M1851 Navy.
.36 cal. percussion revolver of 1856 manufacture. All matching serial numbers, traces of original silver plating in protected areas. Cylinder scene is mostly obliterated but Colt's New York address is well visible. Strong springs, properly indexing cylinder, functions as it should. The bore is pitted and dark, as this gun has probably seen a lot of hard use, including military service in the Civil War.
$1,500 SOLD
Rare Manhattan Firearms "Navy" Percussion Revolver.
First model "Navy" with 12 cylinder stops. The stops between the chambers served as a safety, should the hammer fall unintentionally. It was eliminated in subsequent models, making this a rare exception! Excellent grips with only a small chip missing, good action, properly indexing cylinder. Faint engraving on cylinder. Traces of original silver plating, matching numbers.
$995 SOLD
Manhattan Firearms Pepperbox.
Approximately .32 caliber percussion pepperbox, double-action only. Barrels are 95% blue, the frame a brown patina with crisp engraving. The grips are in very good shape. Excellent, strong action.
$1,300
"Blue Whistler" Pocket Revolver.
Fully functional .32 rimfire made by Bacon Arms of Norwich, CT about 1880 to 1888, or possibly Hopkins & Allen. Serial no 664, 95% plus original nickel plating, in fine mechanical condition, grips are free of cracks and chips.
$350
"Blue Jacket No. 2" by Hopkins & Allen.
85% original nickel plating, fully functional spur-trigger revolver in .32 rimfire. Made by Hopkins and Allen, well known New England gun makers in the 1870's. Mechanically in very good shape, hard rubber grips are fine, without chips or cracks.
$400
Colt 1855 Side Hammer
Excellent condition Colt 1855 Sidehammer .28 caliber cap-and-ball. This is the one known as the “Root” model. Mechanically excellent with tight lock-up and strong springs. The barrel is shiny with minor freckling and sharp rifling. All matching numbers on the frame, barrel and cylinder. Some original blue remaining on the hammer, trigger and side of frame, the rest is a mixture of brown and grey patina. Nice rosewood burl grips with about 30% varnish remaining.
$2,250
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RARE Colt M1849 Hartford
Rare 6-inch barrel with the two-line Hartford address. This gun is in very good condition with a nice brown patina throughout. 31 caliber percussion, all matching mumbers (except on the wedge), about 50% of the stage coach scene is visible on the cylinder. Mechanically excellent, with a fine barrel and sharp rifling. excellent grips without cracks or chips and about 70% varnish remaining. Great value for the collector getting into 1849's!
$1,900
Moore's Patent Seven-Shot Revolver
.32 caliber rim fire revolver patented by Daniel Moore in 1860. He was successfully sued by S&W in 1861 and was obliged to engrave his guns with the phrase "Mfg'd for Smith and Wesson". This gun is still pre-1861, with excellent mechanics, sharp markins and a clean bore. Some silver remaining on the brass frame. Excellent grips without cracks and chips. Nicely engraved.
$1,175
Excellent Smith and Wesson
This early version of the "Old Model Army" has the characteristic three pins and cylinder stop at the top of the frame. Mechanically excellent with a shiny bore and sharp rifling. All original and matching. Drilled and tapped for a shoulder stock. A very exceptional early S&W.
$1,100
Starr M1858 .44 Army DA
.44 caliber percussion pistol with what was called a "self-cocking hammer". The gun has two triggers - the main trigger cocks the hammer, the small secondary trigger releases it. Starr sold 23,000 of these to the Union Army in 1861 for issuance in the civil war. US inspector's cartouche "ABB" (A. B. Blackington, inspector from 1860 to 1862), letter "B" on the frame, "K" on the barrel (right) and cylinder, and a letter "R" in a circle on the left side of the frame. Serial number 12215, mottled grey with brown patina, sharp lettering, good bore and sharp rifling. Works in both single and double action, locks up tight, and indexes correctly. Very good to fine.
$1,975
