When did you last see one of these

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There are several Fosberys in the Wm Cody museum in Cody Wy. They also have several Borshardt pistols and the largest collection of Hawken rifles in the world. Definitely worth seeing. If a person goes, plan on at least 2 days just in the firearms part.
 
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7mm PF; 30% blue, fair bore, very good grips, 1 7/8'' barrel, "KNUCKEL DUSTER PINFIRE PEPPERBOX' The frame and cylinder and grip frame are engraved. The cylinder is 7MM PF fluted and engraved with blue showing in the flutes. The trigger folds. The mechanics are ok, with very good with checkered walnut grips. It has Crown / U proof and marked VC with Belgium proof stampings. The shell extractor (POKER) is screwed in the butt. This is pepperbox has no pitting or patina. Very nice revolver., s/n 0
 
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The Lafayette/Washington pistols were made to be carried on horseback in holsters secured to the pommel of a saddle. They are reputed to have been carried by Washington at Valley Forge, Monmouth, Yorktown and, later on, during the Whiskey Rebellion when Washington was president.”

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Previous National Treasure recipients include: a Henry rifle presented to Abraham Lincoln; a cased Colt 1851 Navy belonging to Maj. Robert Anderson, the hero of Fort Sumter; and the Walker Colts once owned and used by Texas Ranger Capt. Samuel Hamilton Walker.


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I had one but it was beyond my skills to restore. The guy I got it from had bead blasted it. Then it turned out to have a crack in the frame.
 
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Nice acquisition of the Savage-North. In some ways it sort of reminds me of the Pettengill revolver from the same time period.
 


Well, that depends... you'd have to check to see if it folds up and stays put. A Patterson, just fired, will have the trigger deployed. If the gun had been cocked and the hammer manually lowered the same condition results.
The trigger does not fold back up into the frame automatically.
 
The trigger does not fold back up into the frame automatically.
You are right!
Thanks for the excuse to get mine out of the safe and check.
It has been awhile since I worked the action, though I just looked at the flask for another thread.
My 69 year old brain is usually sharper than that.
In his earlier photos the Paterson IS cocked so that explains it.
 
My first recollection of the Fosberry is that is was the murder weapon from the beginning of The Maltese Falcon, with Bogie...Now I feel old. I'd love to shoot one, just to feel the torque of the reciprocating frame yanking the cylinder full of .455's around for another go...
 
Ooohhhhh Daboyleroy, and all fellow THR viewers, prepare yourselves...I realise where I really saw a Webley Fosberry "last"...Behold Sean Connery in the 1974 sci-fi classic "Zardoz"...
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