Product Details
A .32 (RIMFIRE) SMITH AND WESSON OLD MODEL NO 2 ARMY REVOLVER, CIRCA 1862, serial no. 8548,
with 6in. octagonal barrel with raised top rib, with blade front-sight, top flat signed 'SMITH & WESSON SPRINGFIELD MASS', plain hinged frame. with spur trigger, six shot cylinder etched with patent dates, two piece rosewood grips, a sharp and tight gun
Provenance: This model was manufactured 1861 to 1874 with a total production of 77,155. This example dates 1862 making it a Civil War period gun. The Old Model No 2 was a popular sidearm with many enlisted men and officers, General Custer is known to have owned a pair. Wild Bill Hickok while Marshall of Deadwood was carrying one the night he was shot in August 1874.
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Estimate £500-700
Sold as an exempt item under Section 58 (2) of the 1968 Firearms Act, to be held as a curiosity or ornament