Velo-dog "little revolver"

The name means nothing to me, though someone else might be able to help. But without a picture and more info, both of which would apparently not be available, I could not even hazard a guess. Is it possible that the gun was made to fire a blank cartridge? The description would fit many novelty guns that were made to fire blanks.

Jim
 
It did have a rifled barrel,so I don't think it was a blank gun.
My grandpa called it his 50/50 belly gun.He said if you stuck it in someones belly and pulled the trigger,you had a 50/50 chance of hitting him:)
 
I looked mine over a little last night while I was working with some other stuff... it has a normal fluted barrel ( not scoop flutes like I posted before ) is punch dot engraved nickel plated, has a loading gate ( much smaller & more stylized than on the guns posted so far ) & has had the hammer spur repaired at some time in the past... I could find no makers name, or caliber designation ( though it is a 22 center fire Velo Dog ) all I could find for markings on mine is the serial, & a ( I assume ) proof mark on the cylinder I didn't remove the grips last night, so I'm not sure if there is any markings under or not ???
 
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FWIW, the Adolf Frank (ALFA) catalog of 1911 shows those little guns selling for as little as 5.80 Marks, ranging up to M19.00 or so for plain (unembellished models). The difference, I suspect, is the country of origin, though the catalog does not indicate that, with the cheaper guns originating in Spain. For comparison, a Colt Bisley Model Single Action was M118 and a .44 S&W HE was M170; Iver Johnsons ran around M35. The Bisley was selling in the U.S. at the time for about $25.

(In that period, the Mark was a silver coin, considered equivalent to the U.S. quarter, so it would have been roughly equivalent to $11 today.)

Jim
 
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