Fred Fuller
Moderator Emeritus
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?Item=121380874
Current Bid $0.00 No Reserve! Started at $699.00
Buy It Now for $799.00
Quantity 1
This listing is for a very rare Richardson Industries " Philippine Guerrilla Gun". Manufactured in East Haven Conn, these single shot slam fire weapons are seldom seen. CONDITION: Very good, its been in a private collection for many years in as found original condition. 24" Barrel, 12 gauge with parkerized finish. No Serial number found on the gun........
Look now while you still can- this one's an oddity, and a history lesson all rolled into one. It would be nice for historical purposes if someone who can copy pictures here would import these.
We've discussed paltiks, or paliuntods as they were also known, here on the Shotgun forum before. This one is a commercial, postwar version, US made even. Primitive, simple, inexpensive- should be a lesson to those who think they can ban all firearms, as the Japanese tried to do in the Philippines during World War II after the invasion.
Unfortunately the company which made these guns discovered that the paliuntod was too crude for American tastes, even as a curio. That company belonged to former USNR Ensign Iliff D. Richardson, who during the war had similar guns made for his anti-Japanese guerrilla band on the Philippine island of Leyte. Richardson's postwar enterprise was a dismal failure.
Also see:
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=119065
http://www.thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=186215
FWIW,
lpl
Current Bid $0.00 No Reserve! Started at $699.00
Buy It Now for $799.00
Quantity 1
This listing is for a very rare Richardson Industries " Philippine Guerrilla Gun". Manufactured in East Haven Conn, these single shot slam fire weapons are seldom seen. CONDITION: Very good, its been in a private collection for many years in as found original condition. 24" Barrel, 12 gauge with parkerized finish. No Serial number found on the gun........
Look now while you still can- this one's an oddity, and a history lesson all rolled into one. It would be nice for historical purposes if someone who can copy pictures here would import these.
We've discussed paltiks, or paliuntods as they were also known, here on the Shotgun forum before. This one is a commercial, postwar version, US made even. Primitive, simple, inexpensive- should be a lesson to those who think they can ban all firearms, as the Japanese tried to do in the Philippines during World War II after the invasion.
Unfortunately the company which made these guns discovered that the paliuntod was too crude for American tastes, even as a curio. That company belonged to former USNR Ensign Iliff D. Richardson, who during the war had similar guns made for his anti-Japanese guerrilla band on the Philippine island of Leyte. Richardson's postwar enterprise was a dismal failure.
Also see:
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=119065
http://www.thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=186215
FWIW,
lpl