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Identification of an old gun
- Thread starter shaka
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Jim Watson
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Wow, that is a beaut.
Mechanically, it is a copy of the Smith & Wesson Second Model .38 Single Action. Looks like the sideplate was replaced with a plain one.
Probably Spanish make, they liked to get sly references to American guns on their knockoffs.
Otherwise, neither Zhuk nor Google show the like.
I was able to find pictures of muzzleloaders with that ivory knob butt ascribed to the Caucasus. Obviously a continuation of the style into the breechloader era.
Note that it has no sights, like the muzzleloaders.
Mechanically, it is a copy of the Smith & Wesson Second Model .38 Single Action. Looks like the sideplate was replaced with a plain one.
Probably Spanish make, they liked to get sly references to American guns on their knockoffs.
Otherwise, neither Zhuk nor Google show the like.
I was able to find pictures of muzzleloaders with that ivory knob butt ascribed to the Caucasus. Obviously a continuation of the style into the breechloader era.
Note that it has no sights, like the muzzleloaders.
I doubt that that revolver was made anywhere near Europe (or the Americas). Everything about it looks to me like the product of a place like the Khyber pass, which has a long history of producing crude but working copies of Western firearms.
The sideplate appears to be a poorly fitting and non-original part, possibly from a real S&W revolver. The gun has little real value, either as a working gun or a viable weapon for self defense. But it is a novelty and as such demonstrates that when people want weapons, for good or ill, laws will be ineffective in preventing them from obtaining arms.
Jim
The sideplate appears to be a poorly fitting and non-original part, possibly from a real S&W revolver. The gun has little real value, either as a working gun or a viable weapon for self defense. But it is a novelty and as such demonstrates that when people want weapons, for good or ill, laws will be ineffective in preventing them from obtaining arms.
Jim