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    Gun show revolver

    -"On the application of Machinery to the manufacture of Rotating Chambered-Breech Fire-Arms, and the peculiarities of those Arms", by Colonel Samuel Colt (U.S. America) Nov. 25. 1851, Institution of Civil Engineers, London. FULL TEXT
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    Original 1851 Navy?

    All quite correct,including the stagecoach holdup cylinder scene - for an 1849 Pocket Model, that is. :wink:
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    Proof Mark

    These revolvers were the subject of an article in the May 1986 Gun Report titled "Adolf Frank's Piston Revolvers". They were in fact sold by the ALFA catalog of Adolf Franks (a European competitor of Francis Bannerman and Sons) in the early years of the 20th century. The article describes them...
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    Turner Kirkland derringer question

    RM, here's a scan of the listing for Turner Kirkland's .41 caliber Deringer from the 1996 DGW catalog - featuring Turner on the cover. Nipple size is shown as 6mm x .75
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    Ottoman Rifle

    I second the request for a video record! Congratulations on bringing new life to a lovely old weapon.
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    Tinfoil cartridges

    -from the February 1993 Gun Report, "The Colt Cartridge Works" by Terry A. White. The article contains the text and a drawing from Colt's unsuccessful 1851 patent application for tin foil cartridges.
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    Grip Size

    From the top: '58 New Army, '51 Navy, '60 Army, all by Pietta. Sorry, don't have a bird's head grip or ROA to compare.
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    Identify Flintlock Rifle

    I found these two very plain examples in a German book, Kombinations Waffen Des 15.-19. Jarhunderts (Combination Weapons of 15th - 19th Century), captioned "Steinschloß-Stockflinte Osterreich, um 1730" (Flintlock- shotgun stock, Austria 1730). About all I can pull from the text is that...
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    Identify Flintlock Rifle

    Vigilate Deo Confidentes (Watch out, trusting in God), is the motto of South Holland, the original motto of Holland. LINK
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    Identify Flintlock Rifle

    A 24 gauge takedown fowler of such exquisite workmanship is the sort of thing that an aristocratic 18th century naturalist would have found invaluable to harvest specimens for taxidermy and drawing or painting.
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    Cooper .31 DA

    PIC LINK
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    Uberi Wells Fargo Kit

    I bought one because it was too good a deal to pass up. At the higher price the incongruity of a worn-looking pistol in a cased set put me off; at this price I was able to get over it. The antique finish is an extra cost option in the Uberti catalog, but you get this one for $29 less than...
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    What causes a chain fire

    Digitized Google book: On the Application of Machinery to the Manufacture of Rotating Chambered-breech Firearms and their peculiarities, by Colonel Samuel Colt, Assoc. Inst. C.E., 1855. LINK LINK
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    What causes a chain fire

    When Colt addressed the Institution of CIvil Engineers in London in 1851, he claimed that chain fires ("premature explosions") could occur at either end of the cylinder:
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    what percussion pistols would have been used in crimean war?

    Crimean War - British Firearms
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    '51 Navy - Texas Naval Scene?

    An excellent illustrated history of the subject: THE NAVAL ENGAGEMENT SCENE ON COLT REVOLVERS By Arthur Tobias, Ed.D http://users.rcn.com/bobrecht/tobias/PDFs/Naval_Scene.pdf
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    1849 Hartford addressed 4 inch nickeled revolver

    Copy and paste the IMG code from your photobucket pictures to your reply:
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    19th Century Concealed Carry

    The 1849 pocket model was the largest selling percussion Colt by far, so very early postwar (i.e., before 1873) would have been the most common repeating handgun in America. A 4" barrel Colt '49 pocket model is as concealable as a modern Detective Special or S&W J frame, with IWB or pocket...
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    Elmer Keith's Dragoons

    They weren't hard to find. This is from 1933: $30 in 1933 = $500 today.
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    paper cartridges

    One of the rarest Confederate paper cartridges - for the LeMat: -from Confederate Handguns by Albaugh, Benet & Simmons
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