April 24-25, 2019 Extraordinary, Sporting, & Collector Firearms
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 4/25/2019
Factory letter states this standard Model 1860 was part of 1,000 gun shipment to Nashville, Tennessee on September 30th, 1863; obviously a militia shipment. It was waylaid as it was New York style engraved and fitted with one piece ivory grips. Matching serial numbers on frame, trigger guard, backstrap, barrel, wedge, and cylinder post. Cylinder serial number is obscured with pitting. The Nashville shipment was the only one to that location during the war and very few have survived due to the heavy fighting in Tennessee in the latter part of 1863. Many of these revolvers wound up in the hands of Confederate soldiers due to the losses in the Tennessee campaign. CONDITION: It appears as if this revolver was found on a battlefield and there is severe corrosion on the left side, as if it spent many months lying in the dirt before being rescued. Gun has been cleaned as well as it could with some wiped on finish to make it look nicer. Grips are nice. Action works, although off time. Bore shows rifling. This gun is beyond restoration and is offered up as only a rare Civil War battlefield relic. We are pricing the gun at basically the value of the grips.
Caliber/Bore
.44 Percussion
Paperwork
Factory letter and printed book by Whittington in folder