Somebody please tell me...


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coda
November 12, 2003, 09:28 AM
...Any information about this revolver?

http://www.gunsandgames.com/attachments/0081.JPG

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coda
November 12, 2003, 09:34 AM
http://www.gunsandgames.com/attachments/0084.JPG

Airboss
November 12, 2003, 09:58 AM
It looks like a webley/copy of a webley can't tell the cal from the views

Tamara
November 12, 2003, 10:07 AM
Judging from the size and shape of the beast, it looks like one of those late 19th Century British .577 revos. Perhaps a Tranter?

MaterDei
November 12, 2003, 10:21 AM
Somebody please tell me...Any information about this revolver?
Well... It's big and metal. It has a round dohicky in the middle of it. It is being held by the left hand of a person (female or male, don't know. I guess female) in the first picture and appears to be broken in the second picture...

Seriously, Dutch M189X?. Perhaps one that was sent east based on the styling. Indonesia perhaps?

Mike Irwin
November 12, 2003, 12:03 PM
I think Dutch or Belgian is a very good guess. I'd bet good money that the lockwork is pure Chamelot-Devigne (sp?), the same kind of lockwork that was on many hundreds of thousands of European revolvers, most made in France and Belgium.

It's not even remotely related to a Webley or a Tranter.

Are there any markings at all on it?

George Hill
November 12, 2003, 12:26 PM
Mike's right... that's no Webley. The Hinge area isn't right for a Webley and neither is the flourish behind the trigger guard... And the latch for the break open isnt' Webley's style either.
Almost looks like a really huge and really early H&R auto-ejector with fancy grips... but they didn't make anything like that.
I don't now what that is....
Hmmmm... Those grips... I've seen grips like that on old Russian and Hungarian pistols.

Mal H
November 12, 2003, 02:27 PM
Looking at the Horst Held pages (http://www.horstheld.com/default.htm), it has many similarities to a Gasser (Vienna).

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