A curious bayonet revolver

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tylerstg

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My boss inherited this and knows little to nothing about it from what i can tell i think it's a Fagnus but i'm not positive and I've never seen a bayonet attachment like this any info is greatly appreciated.

 
You may want to get one of the moderators/staff to move your post and picture down to "The Harley Nolden Memorial Institute for Firearms Research" sub-forum below.

Also, list all the markings on both weapons and better pictures with close-up of the markings if possible.
 
It is probably Belgian. Look on the rear of the cylinder for an oval with the letters ELG, indicating Belgian manufacture. Those are not common, but are not unknown; there was a fad for those bayonet revolvers back around 1890.

The gun has collector interest as a curio; if it is in good condition, I would value it as around $400-500, but someone else may come up with a better figure.

Jim
 
From your photos it does indeed look like a Fagnas, but the knife/bayonet looks like a later addition, perhaps by the Fagnas shop or another Belgium shop or even a a local Belgium handyman.
 
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It looks to me like that one shoots pin-fire cartridges. The hammer just has that certain shape like it wants to smack down vertically onto the cylinder, as needed for a pin-fire.

I cannot tell if it has the little notches for the pins so I may be wrong.

The US Army bought and issued imported pin-fires in 9 and 12mm size during the War of Northern Aggression. So one could, maybe, claim this is an old Civil War gun, if it is a pin-fire.

Bart Noir
 
Bob , I guessing you think it is not very useful to put bayonets on the modern bull-pup rifles? I sorta agree, but there was a famous British bull-pup bayonet charge in Iraq about 8 or so years back. Iraqi insurgents broke and ran from it.

And back to the topic.... next post, please.

Bart Noir
 
Knife pistols or revolvers were made not just in Europe but in the US as well; there are several in Flayderman.

I don't think that revolver is pin fire, and rim fires were not too common in Europe at that time. I would think it is CF. I agree that the bayonet looks like an add-on, but I can't tell if it was put there by the gun maker or by someone else.

Jim
 
SA Alexander & Cia, appears to be .450 center fire caliber, ( they were also Made in .380 caliber, but never in pin fire ), even tried to interest the French in it as a Military gun Made around 1876 until 1893.
 
Hi, RJay,

Do you have the URL for Little gun? I somehow lost it off my favorites list and tries on different combinations don't work.

Jim
 
And I thought the Glock one was a new standard in tactical accessories. There is really just a tactical treadmill.
Next thing you know someone is going to post a medieval crossbow with a quad rail grip.
 
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