Cowhide Cliff
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so its true brass frame revolvers were made back then?? I read and seen controversy over this subject...
The frames were actually gun metal but yes there were some made. Spiller and Burr, Griswold and Gunnison, and just a few by Schneider & Glassick. The G&G and S&G were essentially copied off of an 1851 Colt. The modern day Ruger New Army is somewhat a copy of a Spiller and Burr the way the ramrod and cylinder pin work.
Where the controversy comes in is the Italians have taken the liberty to make brass copies of the Remington, 44 caliber brass frame 1851 Colts, even seen some older brass framed 1860 Armys and they make all these fantasy guns that never existed and mislead people by calling them Confederate models. As if the Confederacy made a brass frame copy of every gun that existed and then some.