NOTE: These two guns both sold to a private collector through our brick and mortar store in Parker, CO in summer 2017. The Mauser C/96 Broomhandle Pistol saw service throughout the world; from the trenches of WWI to The Dublin Easter Uprising, Broomhandles have armed Russian Revolutionaries, Chinese Warlords, and a host of paramilitary groups in between. Since most Mauser C/96 contracts were filled from standard production guns, it’s hard to trace specific guns to specific countries. (Notable contract examples are the Turkish Conehammer Contract, marked in Farsi in their own serial number range, the Persian Contract, 1000 guns in a specific serial number range and marked with the Persian Crest, or the Italian Naval Contract of 5000 guns in their own serial number range with Italian markings.) When Mauser started production of the C/96 in 1896, commercial sales were good, but Mauser was hoping for a military contract, so … Read More
Remington Double Derringer .41 Short Revolver
NOTE: This revolver is currently for sale in our store and on our website. No representation of the “Old West Saloon” is complete without a vest clad gambler sitting at a card table, armed with his Remington Derringer. These iconic guns were made, relatively unchanged, from 1866 until 1935. They shoot a low powered rimfire 41 Short cartridge, with an estimated muzzle velocity of 425 feet per second. We recently acquired the gun pictured here on one of our buying trips through the Western US. Coming out of Reno, NV, it came from the family of a pawn shop owner who kept under the counter as the store defense gun from the 1920’s to the 1950’s. After that, it was dropped in a drawer and only saw the light of day recently. When we purchased it, it even had what appears to be the original ammunition chambered! Operation is single … Read More