Coupla interesting gun show finds

Nice haul DOC. I may have to move back your way. None of the gunshows around here ever have anything close to the deals you've been able to find out there.

Looking forward to your documenting the 'cleaning up' of these two revolvers.

FM
 
Fingers....

I must say that the pickins are sort of slim. I only saw six replica BP revolvers in the entire show. The Colt 3rd Gen I described was snapped up by another person.

The remaining revolver was a Remington replica that the vendor was trying to pass of as an original. It had those fake ivory grips with the fake eagle carving. The previous owner had swapped out the barrel for one with a target sight. He wanted 700.00 but my thought is that the grips were worth more than the pistol. I have seen the pistol at three shows.

The best show I have attended in the last year was the one in Dade City Florida. I could easily have spent 2000.00 and still left a coupla good ones on the tables. (That is Bill Akins' stompin grounds.)
 
Sile - NY - NY

Folks,

Just checked the two revolvers over and found the subject marking on the top of the barrel on both of the ASPs.

Anyone familiar with "Sile"?
 
Sile is/was an importer based in NYC. Don't have definitive information beyond that, although I recall seeing it out there in the cloud somewhere.
 
According to Blue Book:

SILE DISTRIBUTORS
Previous distributor, importer, and previous manufacturer located in New York, NY until 1999. Importer and distributor of Investarms and Pedersoli brand.
In addition to distributing a wide variety of firearms and related accessories (including the mfg. of stocks and grips), Sile Distributors also had some firearms "private labeled" to their specifications.
 
Tubular! Do they still say "tubular"?

I am thinking these fall under the "some firearms "private labeled" to their specifications." Category.

They are definitely ASP and both are dated AE.

Thanks greatly for the information which I knew would be forthcoming.

Tnx,
 
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