ALL-METAL RING TRIGGER PERCUSSION DERINGER

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Item Code: 490-7034

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These small, unmarked, all-metal single action and singe-shot percussion pistols are the product of Bacon and Company of Norwich, CT, and manufactured in very small numbers from about 1852 to 1858, by Flayderman’s reckoning. This one is numbered “53” on the underside of the barrel, near the frame. They are .31 caliber and under five inches overall, this one has a barrel just 2” long, making them a perfect pocket pistol or deringer, robustly constructed – made completely of iron with the bag-shaped grip cast integral with the frame on the right and with a removable, screw-fastened panel on the left, and fitted with a ring trigger to avoid using a separate triggerguard, make it easier to draw from a pocket- though the hammer might still hang up- and possibly serve as an iron knuckle in a clenched fist if it came down to it. This shows as a muted silver and gray in color with mixed areas of darker gray staining and “freckling” or shallow pitting. The mechanics are good, as is the bore. The nipple has been battered a bit from the impact of the hammer.

Small pistols like this sometimes show up in the context of Civil War camps, where they had been brought in by early war volunteers as a personal weapon, but they were frowned on by officers as presenting too much danger from careless handling and usually sent home or discarded, if not confiscated. They found continued use, however, among travelers, gamblers, and other adventurers, if only as close-up, last-ditch defenses or persuasive adjuncts to discussion of the relative merits of poker hands.  [sr][ph:m/L]

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