Who made Euroarms revolvers?

[zimmerstutzen]

So I am cruising an on-line auction this morning and I notice a NOS Euroarms 36 caliber 1851 revolvers for sale with no bids. Euroarms had a better than average reputation, so in an obsessive moment, I put in a minimum bid 3 minutes before the auction closed. Any way, I won. The photos show some minimal cylinder drag marks, but other wise it does in fact look new. I cant tell the maker from the photos. I can make out the word "Brescia" which I know was an arms making town in Italy. As good at it looked, I figured it was worth what I paid.

IS this an orphan brand make or a current maker product?

 

[faustopph]

Euroarms was a manufacturer and was bought out by Pedersoli

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[Prairie Dawg]

Armi San Paolo

Here's a link to Italian proofmarks: http://www.dakotaskipper.net/ebay/MBPProofmarks1.pdf

An excerpt: Arms originally manufactured by Armi San Paolo S.r.l. or Euroarms S.r.l., now the proprietary name, bear the DGG emblem representing
the company's founders, Grassi, Doninelli, and Gazzola.

As was said above, Euroarms is no longer making guns.

--Dawg

 

[Crawdad1]

There was a lot of good makers back then, I had a muzzleloading shotgun built by <AMR> and was imported by CVA back in the 70's or 80's. It was a great shotgun.

 

[faustopph]

Euroarms manufactured firearms with the Armi San Paolo name for a while. This is good info for those interested.
http://www.civilwarnews.com/watchdog/wd_031101.html

 

[faustopph]

It is kind of strange after reading this again. I have revolvers marked Euroarms that are much older than my revolver marked Armi San Paolo. Maybe I'm missing something.

 

[Gaucho Gringo]

I have one of the Euroarms 1858 .36 Remingtons. It is nice because it has a smaller frame, just like the originals did. All the other makers use the same frame for the .36 & .44 1858's.

 

[Hellgate]

Gaucho,
When I compared thr frames on my Euro 44s to the 36s they were all the same size. All were of a smaller frame than any other make I have had (Pietta & Uberti). Are your guns really old or really new? Mine are old and new 44s and old 36s.

 

[Crawdad1]

William B. Edwards was a founding member of the Century Arms company. And Val Forgett was the first to approach Colt trying to and finally talking them into their first or "C Series" 2nd Generation black powder revolvers. I think by the time the "F Series" Second generation Colts came out Val Forgett was not in the picture anymore replaced by Lou Imperator or the guy who started and produced, who is now succeeded by his son, the modern 'Henry' lever action rifles. His son is the one on the commercials now.

 

[Malachi Leviticus Blue]

It is kind of strange after reading this again. I have revolvers marked Euroarms that are much older than my revolver marked Armi San Paolo. Maybe I'm missing something.

If I remember this right, Armi San Paolo revolvers were imported for quite a while as "Armi San Paolo" revolvers, and during the same period they were also imported and marked with numerous importers names like "Lyman" for example and including "Euroarms" as an importer. Then eventually Armi San Paolo was flat out changed to Euroarms.

So there was a period of time lasting for years that there were "Armi San Paolo" revolvers and "Euroarms" revolvers (and many other importers names) coming into the US all made by Armi San Paolo.

and now Armi San Paolo is no more

 

[Driftwood Johnson]

Howdy

I bought this Remmie brand, spanky new in 1975. In this photo it is wearing the R&D conversion cylinder I bought for it. It also has a taller front sight than originally came on it, because it always shot high.




Here is a photo of the marking on the top of the barrel.





And here is a photo of the Armi San Paolo mark on the underside of the barrel, under the loading lever.





The gun is noticeably larger than this Uberti, and it weighs about 4 ounces more.