Revolver trivia time: Name the maker and model.

[silicosys4]

How revolver saavy are you? Can you name this revolver Mfg. and model #?

 

[Corpral_Agarn]

Looks French.

I don't know why

 

[Monac]

I think it is a Colt prototype for a swing out cylinder revolver with simultaneous extraction and ejection. That would probably put it in the 1880's. But asking for a model number shakes my confidence, because a prototype would not have one, in the ordinary sense of a model number. It may have been in one of R. L. Wilson's lavishly illustrated books, before he got busted for plundering the Connecticut State Library's Colt collection (there's a good video about that here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nhUpPbqD44 . It's about 28 minutes long.)

 

[PistoleroWadcutterGANG]

That's the 38JC (Julia Childs) it extracts / ejects and then mince garlic along with shooting 38 special.

 

[Pat Riot]

Looks French.

I don't know why

I thought the same. I found this in a search. This is what I thought it might be. I was wrong.

Gerard Mercenier M1881 swing-out revolver ------ SOLD prodano

cal.380 rare example of early swing-out cylinder system

historickezbrane.blogspot.com

 

[dfariswheel]

It's Colt's prototype for the worlds first successful double action, swing out cylinder revolver, made around 1884.
The design was never produced as other then a prototype, an improved version was marketed to the military and commercial market in 1889 as the Colt New Army & Navy models.

 

[NIGHTLORD40K]

It's Colt's prototype for the worlds first successful double action, swing out cylinder revolver, made around 1884.
The design was never produced as other then a prototype, an improved version was marketed to the military and commercial market in 1889 as the Colt New Army & Navy models.

They probably shoulda stuck with the prototype....

 

[halfmoonclip]

Now there is something entirely different, with the crane hinged at the top.
Are we going to find out?
Moon

 

[silicosys4]

It's Colt's prototype for the worlds first successful double action, swing out cylinder revolver, made around 1884.
The design was never produced as other then a prototype, an improved version was marketed to the military and commercial market in 1889 as the Colt New Army & Navy models.

Winner!

 

[Speedo66]

If it’s a Colt, I guess you had to pull back on the cylinder release, very confusing.

 

[Pat Riot]

If it’s a Colt, I guess you had to pull back on the cylinder release, very confusing.

The pull back cylinder release was an improvement?

 

[retDAC]

Looks French.

I don't know why

IIRC it's based on a French or Belgian French design.

 

[Mark_Mark]

How revolver saavy are you? Can you name this revolver Mfg. and model #?

that’s COOL!

 

[Mark_Mark]

How revolver saavy are you? Can you name this revolver Mfg. and model #?

not German - not efficient enough
not English - not boring enough
not American- too many curves

it’s Italian

 

[stonebuster]

Henry's #2? No, too good looking.