Horst Held-Pinfire Revolvers-View Revolvers for Sale on Your Laptops

Horst Held = Antique Handguns

e-mail held@ectisp.net
phone 972-351-8852
541 Lynnie Pennie Lane Midlothian, Texas 76065

pinfire revolvers
revolver à broche, Stiftfeuer-Revolver, penfuur

the pin fire revolvers are similar the American made "Suicide / Saturday Night Specials" inexpensive and in big numbers produced in the 1870's. At the time there were beside a few bigger factories some 400 "kitchen table gun-makers" involved. To avoid paying royalties to Lefaucheux the majority show no maker's name, only the mandatory proof stamps. Most are Belgian made and show the ELG proof. Many were sold through the European mail-order companies. The calibers are European metric named calibers, and the only correct names are 5mm, 7mm, 9mm, 12mm and very rare 15mm.

Civil War: Federal Purchases of pin fire revolvers: LEFAUCHEUX marked 12mm revolvers, 11,833 pieces probably in the serial # 25,000 - 37,000. Additional were bought in Europe from different dealers, no makers and numbers available, and most today offered to be "Confederate used" are dubious. A lot of the inexpensive and not marked revolvers were actually made during the 1870's.
Please see Chris Curtis' book "Systeme Lefaucheux"
+ William Albaugh's book "Confederate Handguns"

Here are some German made pin fire revolvers listed. It creates the impression that those are common. Fact is, German made pin fire revolvers are very rare. Always searching for I was lucky to buy a life-time-collection.
Solingen is famous for its blades and there is an excellent blade-museum, worth visiting the Klingen-Museum. You can visit the museum in Germany in person or view pieces from their collection on your computer online. If you need a faster computer there are many refurbished laptops for sale which can give you additional speed while surfing the Internet.

Javelle 9mm pin-fire tip-down revolver