Captain*kirk
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Yeah, I can see that now. Can't get a clear enough view of the cylinder notches to see if they're oval or rectangular, though.
I'm gonna go with 1st Dragoon as my choice.
I'm gonna go with 1st Dragoon as my choice.
makos_goods
...Strawhat,
Basically 4 Colt Dragoon sized pistols were sold with the squared trigger guards.
1. The Walker
2. the Colt Whitneyville Hartford Dragoon or the Colt Walker Transition Dragoon
3. 1848 Dragoon Model 1
4. 1848 Dragoon Model 2
Regards,
Mako
Very few were actually made. TS delivered very few revolvers in relation to money appropriated by the CSA. This is the case with most all the small revolver makers during the Civil War. If you worked in the munitions industry you were exempt from the draft. These workers "paid" to get these jobs. Crony capitalism, corruption, greed, nothing new.
oyeboten said:Could it be a 'Tucker, Sherrard'?
Oyerboten,
Yep, 1st national draft in America. Happened in March of '62. The union followed suit exactly one year later. Before that the Federal government didn't have the right to conscript. There had been compulsory requirements for enlistment in the militia as far back as colonial times, but no national conscription. That was colony, city or local and then leading to state authority, but no national authority to do so.Ahhhhh...( TS Dragoons being too late for this image )...
But, far as the Draft or Dreft deferment is concerned...I was not aware that the Confederacy had enacted any 'draft'...
Is it just camera angle, or do the position of the hammer and the nipple recesses in the original photo suggest that the hammer is resting between the nipples? Did the Dragoons (of whichever model) have the safety pins, whatever they are properly called?
Skinny,If it could be authenticated as a Walker the photo then becomes one of very few that exist. There were not that many made and are the holy grail for some Colt collectors.