Can anyone ID this?

The real ones I've handled are pinfire and usually Spanish made.

It's kinda hard to tell from the pictures, but it may be a reproduction.
 
Snake eyes percussion, appears to me to be an original. it's definitely not one of the recent kits.
 
Really hard to tell from the pictures, but it appears that there may be pin fire groves under the hammers. Looks to be Spanish made , if pinfire, mid to late 1800's. if cartridge it could even be recent. These are very popular in South America and are still being made there there, usually in .320 caliber. Carried by the poor working folks against the many bandits. Some of the recent ones don't even have rifling ( it is a close range firearm. One version , in 22 LR was sold in the US but they were not popular and I've even forgoten who imported them and from where. Not a high dollar item.
 
Perhaps you could post a photo giving a side view? From the one view, it appears to have a triggerguard? I have an original double barrel pinfire similar to this in my collection. I bought it probably 45 years ago. The one I have has "pop out" triggers which drop down as each hammer is cocked. I sent photos of it to Robert Abels in NY years ago and he felt that it was of French or Belgium manufacturer even though there were no markings on the pistol. Since then, I've seen several throughout the years at gun shows - most priced around $100 and nobody was standing in line to buy them. I bought it because it was different but unless you are in to collecting pinfires there probably isn't a big demand. As suggested, yours may be a product of the 1970s. If you can put some more detailed photos up of it, someone should be able to give you a good idea of what it is. Good luck!
 
The only ones I know of that were making those in the 70's was Classic Arms and they were brass framed. DGW still sells the Classic Arms kits and they look nothing like this one. It doesn't appear to me to be pinfire. The shape of the hammers is wrong and the barrels don't appear to open up.
 
Kind of like looking at a lug nut on a car and trying to ascertain what the car is. How about a photo of the whole pistol, also with hammers cocked, and from the top with hammers cocked.

The Doc is out now. :cool:
 
Kind of like looking at a lug nut on a car and trying to ascertain what the car is.
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You can do that to some degree on older cars. Fords have bigger ones than Chevies, Chrysler used the same size as Ford but the ones on the right side were a left hand thread.
 
Those marks look a bit like British view marks. Guns like that were made in England in the 19th century, but we definitely need better pictures before making even an educated guess as to the origin and value.

Jim
 
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