Product Details
SMITH & WESSON, USA
A CASED FINE .44 (RUSSIAN) SIX-SHOT REVOLVER, MODEL 'NEW MODEL No.3', serial no. 35624
for 1898, with blued 6 1/2in. barrel, the raised sighting rib marked 'SMITH & WESSON SPRINGFIELD MASS U.S.A.', square cut target fore-sight, standing notch rear-sight with drift adjustable blade, blued fluted auto-ejecting cylinder, blued break-open frame, colour hardened hammer, trigger and trigger-guard bow, replacement factory chequered rosewood grips, the whole retaining the majority of its original factory blued finish (wear to grip-straps), together with a possibly period after-market leather-covered wood storage-case lined and compartmented in dark green baize and containing a period box of spent cases, four dummy rounds, an oil-bottle and two cleaning brushes, the case lid printed with 'D.B. CANDLER, JR' and also accompanied by a S&W factory historic provenance letter
Provenance: Purchased Pete Holder Antique American Firearms, 2013.
Other Notes: The S&W factory letter included with this lot states that it did not leave the factory till November 3rd 1908 and was finished with a 6 1/2in. barrel in blue and fitted with chequered black hard-rubber grips
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Estimate £3,000-5,000
Sold as an exempt item under Section 58 (2) of the 1968 Firearms Act, to be held as a curiosity or ornament