Hand Guns - Antique/Curio & Relic Firearms, Used

Authentic Second Generation Colt "F" Series 1851 Navy Revolver, manufactured circa 1981, 7-1/2" barrel, .36 caliber Black Powder Percussion (Cap & Ball) only, six-shot; roll engraved naval battle scene on cylinder; blued barrel and cylinder; color case-hardened frame, loading lever, plunger, and hammer; silver plated backstrap and square-back trigger-guard; one-piece walnut grip. Appears unfired, with black box (no manuals).
Sold as-is, no warranty implied or given. Please have any gun you plan to shoot thoroughly checked by a competent gunsmith prior to firing. A great collector's item.
Although this gun was manufactured circa 1981, it is considered an antique gun by the BATF, the system design is pre-1899.

Used "British Bulldog" style pocket revolver, six-shot fluted cylinder, ~.32 caliber; unknown manufacturer. No foreign proofs are obvious. These were manufactured 1872-1890. Barrel length ~1-1/2". Checkered wood grips. Replacement non-original screw left-side of frame. Action needs work. Fixed front sight. Loading is achieved via a gate on right side of frame. Fair condition with light scattered pitting overall.
Sold as-is, no warranty implied or given. Not sold as a shooter. Please have any gun you plan to shoot thoroughly checked by a competent gunsmith prior to firing. A great collector's item.
Antique gun, manufactured before 1899.

Used Hopkins & Allen "Forehand Model" double-action, top-break revolver; fluted five-shot cylinder, .38 caliber, manufactured circa 1902-1914. Barrel length ~3-1/4". Black hard rubber grips (good condition). Action needs work and hammer does not cock in double-action mode or catch in single-action mode. Fixed front and rear sights, loading is achieved by top-break. Fair condition with light scattered pitting overall; no finish remains.
Sold as-is, no warranty implied or given. Not sold as a shooter. Please have any gun you plan to shoot thoroughly checked by a competent gunsmith prior to firing. A great collector's item.
This gun must be shipped to a Federal Firearms Licensee; Curio & Relic okay.

Offered here is a MAGIC cast iron single-shot pistol. These are often advertised as a "cap pistol" but I strongly believe these are functional and may be able to fire a rimfire cartridge of an obsolete ~.17 caliber. The hammer has a straight vertical firing pin as on rimfire .22 pistols; the barrel is unobstructed and I believe was intended for a projectile to pass through it. Most of these will likely be considered Antiques as I would not go so far as to put them in the Curio & Relic category; certainly they fall into the non-technical term of Firearms Curiosa. I have seen virtually identical examples with the cast-in wording, "PAT'D/OCT 17,/99" but this appears to be an earlier version without patent date.
Hammer does not lock in place and falls forward on its own; locking lever - that releases the barrel so it can be tipped down and loaded - is broken off (this lever would protrude forward of the trigger guard, appearing as a second trigger). Fair condition.
Sold as-is, no warranty implied or given. Not sold as a shooter. Please have any gun you plan to shoot thoroughly checked by a competent gunsmith prior to firing.
Considered an antique gun, manufactured before 1899. A great collector's item.

This is an antique Percussion Single-Shot Pistol, perhaps manufactured by Bacon and Company or perhaps manufactured W.W. Marston circa 1840s to 1860s. Caliber is believed between .31 and .36. Overall length is ~9-3/4"; barrel length is ~6", half octagon, half round.
Overall condition is about poor to fair as the metal is lightly rusted overall; action is not fuctional (hammer and trigger do not latch into position but move freely); nipple is broken at breech.
Interesting Civil War era belt/pocket pistol.

This is an antique firearm manufactured before 1898 and can be shipped directly in most States, excluding New Jersey and Hawaii.
Used gun, sold as is; no warranty implied or given.
Not sold as a shooter. Please have any gun you intend to shoot - in any fashion - checked by a competent gunsmith.

Used Smith & Wesson Single Action 2nd Model Revolver, manufactured circa 1877-1891. Caliber is .38 S&W, 5-shot fluted cylinder; spur trigger. Barrel length ~3-1/4". Black hard rubber grips (about disintegrated). Replacement non-original screw in frame cover left-side. Action needs work and hammer falls all by itself. Fixed front and rear sights, loading is achieved by top-break. Fair condition with light scattered pitting overall; some evidence of nickel finish.
Sold as-is, no warranty implied or given. Not sold as a shooter. Please have any gun you plan to shoot thoroughly checked by a competent gunsmith prior to firing. A great collector's item.
Antique gun, manufactured before 1899.

As you might guess, we receive a large amount of requests for identification and appraisal of various arms and armor. I urge you in advance to peruse the Arms Identification pages on that section of the website; this may save you some money. Many common weapons and related can be found there. If that does not work for you, I will try to help directly, but at a fee. I will also buy your items if you wish to sell after identification or informal appraisal. If you decide to sell, I will credit or refund you the total amount of the identification or appraisal fee, once the item for sale is received in-house and a price agreed upon.



Please note:

• This is the price for the identification of one item. I will supply a basic identification and a basic value (if requested).
• I will not specifically name the variations in a particular model, only the variant model designation. This is a basic service.
• I will need one overall image, generally no larger than a 8x10 desktop type photo in jpg/jpeg format and cropped to the subject matter only. I will not accept any other format or compressed/zipped images. I will ask for additional photos if necessary. E-mail these to Identify; your order number must be included in the subject line.
• Please do not e-mail single image files larger than 250kb, no more than 500kb total for multiple images; I will not open them if they exceed these limits.
• If you E-mail or snail-mail any images to me for use in identification of an item, I reserve the right to use - without further contact - those images on my website, without compensation to you (other than my efforts to assist you, however minimal the result may actually be).
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• I will also need basic dimensions and description of the item being identified. Please add these to the text box in the shopping cart or e-mail as above.
• Be sure to put your order number in the subject field of any e-mails pertaining to the identification request.
• Fee must be paid in advance and is nonrefundable; if sending a check, make payable to The History Store and state Identification Service in your memo field; mail to the address below. Payment must accompany any request.
• We will not be held responsible for any errors or omissions. Once again, this is a very basic service.
• Research materials I have available are quite substantial; however, on some items, information within those materials might be quite sparse.