.45 Caliber DERINGER TYPE POCKET PISTOL Engraved Birmingham England Antique CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH & RIVERBOAT GAMBLER Pistol

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.45 Caliber DERINGER TYPE POCKET PISTOL Engraved Birmingham England Antique

CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH & RIVERBOAT GAMBLER Pistol

Here we present an antique Engraved British Proofed Henry Deringer Percussion Pistol, made circa 1850 in Birmingham, England. Henry Deringer was a very successful Pennsylvanian gunsmith who started his own company in his early twenties, circa 1809. It was not until the 1850s that his prototypical “Deringer” percussion pistol became extremely popular. Once it did become popular, the basic design was copied in dozens of different shops. Not only was it copied, but Deringer’s good name was stamped on guns made by others, some of them not up to the quality standards of Deringer himself. The inventor was apparently very worried about protecting his good name, so he pursued and sued any of the counterfeiters that he could find and warned the buying public to beware of his spurious imitators.

Here is what Charles Edwin Chapel had to say about the Deringer pistol:

“For a man in a tight spot, with an armed enemy only a few feet away, a pair of single-shot Deringer pistols was more effective than the multishot pepperbox. You either got your man at the first or second shot—if, indeed, you were given the chance to fire twice—or you got a fast funeral. That heavy-calibered little gun was a man-stopper at short range, an effective surprise weapon, an “equalizer” with which many a gold-camp David permanently tamed the muscle-bulging, belligerent Goliaths of the frontier. Included in a man’s personal arsenal, the pistol was carried either as a principal weapon or as a reserve to be used when revolver, pepperbox or Bowie knife failed.”

The overall condition is good. Original patina. The action is excellent. The bore is patinated with good rifling. The stock shows a repair at the top; otherwise good. The bottom of the barrel is marked with Birmingham proofs. This was a British copy of a very popular design that was made for popular use either in the British Isles or for export to North America.

Own the original! This is a legitimate antique and not a reproduction.

Barrel is 2-1/8 inches.

Caliber: .45 Percussion

Overall condition as seen in photos.

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$1600
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