??colt 41 derringer help

[jay49319]

i know some one selling a colt 41 looks to be from the 60's no serial number dose this mean its a reproduction i dont know much about theses any help thanks

 

[jhco50]

Is this a double barrel deringer? I don't believe there was a replica made in .41 rimfire. Don't quote me. Is there a name on the firearm barrel? Originals would be marked Remington. Or is it a Colt singleshot? If that is the case I could not tell you. We need a bit more information.

 

[jay49319]

its a single barrel it says colt on barrol i just cant find s/n i dont wanna get it if its a fake

 

[jay49319]

any help i would help im suppose to go get it in now i was reading and somne one said they bought a colt and at first they thought it was a butlers is that a company that made colts too plzzz help me

 

[rcmodel]

You are not giving much info to go on, but this I know.

*Colt last made the #3 .41 derringer from 1875 - 1910.

*Colt never made a double-barrel derringer. That was Remington.

*The Colt was a single-shot, and had a side-swing barrel for loading.

*The serial number is usually found on the frame, under the grips.

*There was a scaled down .22RF Colt #3 derringer made from 1959 - 1963, and then again in 1970 for a very short while.

*.41 RF ammo is non-existent today except at cartridge collector prices.

rcmodel

 

[Molasses]

I don't believe anybody has made a copy of the Colt single barrel ones in .41RF in recent years. Colt themselves did copies in .22 back a few decades ago, but didn't do a reissue .41

Referring to Wilson's The Book of Colt Firearms, I'm getting this: If the derringer's actually from Colt, it SHOULD have a serial number on it somewhere. Their derringers were numbered, from serial #1 in 1870 in the first and second models, #1 again in 1875 with the third model and numbers starting at 100 or 1001 and having a letter suffix on all the 1959-1970s .22s.

The first and second models (basically the same as made by National before Colt bought them out; where the barrel rotates down and left to open for loading/unloading, sort of in the direction of opening most double action revolvers) had serial numbers on the butt and breach end of the barrel while the 3rd model (a different design where the barrel swings in a horizontal arc in loading/unloading) had serial numbers on the underside of the barrel, on the left side of the grip frame (I'm guessing covered by the left-side grip) and writen inside the grips. The later .22 ones had the serial number stamped on the left side of the frame.