1858 Remington, Genuine or repro.

The photos are of a revolver given to me 10 years or ago by a Florida neighbor. No history. I laid it on top of the water heater in the garage and that's where its remained.

It is heavily corroded. I used a honing stone on the top flat trying to bring out the stamps somewhat. Some one else has tried removing screws by drilling. Nothing moves but the hammer and oddly enough the trigger will lock and release it. No barrel obstruction, a rod goes to the bottom of the cylinder bore.

I can make out on the top flat...……., what I think is Remington, Sept 14 1858. Underneath that appears to be New York USA .

If there are other markings they are hidden beneath the patina of corrosion and dings. There isn't any loose rust or scale.

Wonder if Rid O Rust would bring out any additional stamps.

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Pulled the grips, has the same markings as your bottom photo, plus a 5 or 6 digit string of numbers.
Perhaps it is an original, albeit of little monetary value. Nice to have apiece of history even if I don't know anything of that history
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The fellow who gave it to me is now living with his brother in the Philippines, last I knew. I'll email him maybe I can get a little more background.

That is worth a try. I'll see if the local Wal^Mart has it.

De rusted and disassembled . Missing is the main spring and the mainspring tension screw is rusted off flush with inside of the frame and I haven’t been able to back it out as yet.

The main spring from an ASM 1858 fits and powers the hammer but it is short by an 1/8 or so in length.

Someone with more talent and patience than me could probably restore it to a functioning condition. The bore has full rifling and no heavy pitting like the frame and cylinder.

Guess I’ll build a wall box and display it under glass with some civil war background prints.

LonesomePigeon said:

That's pretty cool. Can you see the barrel address better now?

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Not really, but I haven't tried any techniques to try raising the lettering.

I've gotten some new parts from Dixie, the main spring, a new hammer screw, a replacement trigger/stop spring and assorted other screws. The hammer screw, the trigger/stop screw and the the loading link screw were true fits, the other screws would require drilling out and tapping the screw holes. The springs were true to fit and function well.

I can half and full cock the hammer but have to rotate the cylinder by hand. It locks into battery on some chambers, but the cylinder stops on some are worn or dinged on others, the hammer fall snaps caps.. The hand appears to be too short either from wear or corrosion and the cylinder stops (?) as well as the cylinder ratchet are also worn. The base pin is fully round, IE can be removed by just dropping the loading lever with out removing the loading lever cross screw. Original, hand made replacement ??

I'm debating if I want to try and rehab some of the metal and put a plum finish on it or just display as is. Perhaps with a repro powder flask, bullet molds and reproduction cap tin on a table or wall case with a background of something depicting the era.

Any one has access to serial numbers, this one is 66158, please post any info known.

arcticap said:

The Remington Society of America has a forum where they answer questions about serial numbers.
If you post the question there they will tell you about it.

Remington Society of America Forum Index Page: [Go to Pre-1899 handguns]--->>> https://www.remingtonsociety.org/forums/

Here's 2 sample threads that show the information given for other 1858 guns. [They may like to see a photo of the serial number on the frame.]

1. From 2019 --->>> https://www.remingtonsociety.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=26225

2. From 2015 --->>> https://www.remingtonsociety.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=23152

Remington Society of America Home Page: --->>> https://www.remingtonsociety.org

Please let us know what you find out, perhaps send us a link to the thread.

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Tried to register, repeated the process twice. The site won’t accept my @gmail.com address. Can’t post photos or ask a question.

arcticap said:

Don't give up yet!!!!!

You can register with a Gmail account by using the "contact us" link listed below.

The "contact us" link works without registering. I found it at the bottom of the FAQ page which says that you simply need to contact an administrator.

Contact us --->>> https://www.remingtonsociety.org/forums/memberlist.php?mode=contactadmin

It states " If you have gmail please send me email I will enable it for you unfortunately leaving gmail wide open is just to much spam.

Also if your email is *.*.com something.something.com it's usually a BS email account but again if you send me email I will enable your specific email."

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Thanks. LOL. My Gmail account is my spam account. It’s Why I use it for on line stuff.

Ok got signed up at the Remington Society. Posted the same set of photos there as seen here. Newbies have to have photos and the text reviewed before publication to the site.

Reply from the Remington Society Forum. By its serial number the piece was manufactured in March of 1864. Most likely a civilian gun.