Very Scarce ENGRAVED Antique GILLESPIE .48 Percussion DERINGER Style Pistol CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH Era RIVERBOAT GAMBLER’s Gun

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Very Scarce ENGRAVED Antique GILLESPIE .48 Percussion DERINGER Style Pistol

CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH Era RIVERBOAT GAMBLER’s Gun

Here we present an antique Engraved Gillespie Deringer Style Percussion Pistol, made circa the late 1840s-1860s in New York City. George Gillespie was a gun maker in the late 1840s into the mid to late-1860s and had his shop on Warren Street in New York. Gillespie and many others copied the Henry Deringer style of pistol. Gillespie marketed his guns in NYC from the 1850’s through a bit after the civil war. This gun is one of the rarer types of Deringers as it is almost belt size.

The name “Deringer” often invokes certain historical event, characters or moments in film. Deringer’s name has become both a noun and a catch-all term. President Abraham Lincoln was shot and killed with one of Henry Deringer’s pocket sized percussion pistols, the night John Wilkes Booth revenged the South at the Ford Theater. They conjure images of the California Gold Rush, as well as riverboat gamblers. These pistols were very practical for the time, being small and concealable and of large bore size.

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. Lightly refinished barrel. The action is excellent. The bore is in good shape with good rifling. The stock is solid throughout.

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

Barrel is 4-1/8 inches.

Caliber: .48 Percussion

Overall condition as seen in photos.

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$2000
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