And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
12mm caliber, 4.75" octagonal barrel, S/N 3. Center barrel smoothbore, marked on top of the barrel Colonel LeMat Patent. Blue finish with some of the parts finished in a straw color. Two-piece walnut grips
Looks like they are all French. I'm assuming the condition listed is "never fired, dropped only once". I would guess some of them are still the old pin-fire variety instead of that new fangled cartridge.
You can get a reproduction LeMat in cap-n-ball format with .44 caliber main gun and 20 gauge center shotgun barrel. Myself, I'd like the Hollywood version carried by Ed Harris in the new West World show, converted to cartridge and most likely a .44 short or .45 colt caliber (however likely impossible but that's Hollywood).
Take your pick............ If I was a collector of this sort of early revolver, then Oh Boy! But I am a shooter so I will throw funds at my weakness, military centerfire sidearms. 1911, P-08, FN High Power, any S&W or Colt service revolvers. And of course the early black powder Colts. YMMV
Whoa. I'll take em all.
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12mm caliber, 4.75" octagonal barrel, S/N 3. Center barrel smoothbore, marked on top of the barrel Colonel LeMat Patent. Blue finish with some of the parts finished in a straw color. Two-piece walnut grips
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I like the other LeMat. And the one to the left is…French? Before or after the Chanelot-Delvigne
ReplyDeleteLooks like they are all French. I'm assuming the condition listed is "never fired, dropped only once". I would guess some of them are still the old pin-fire variety instead of that new fangled cartridge.
ReplyDeleteYou can get a reproduction LeMat in cap-n-ball format with .44 caliber main gun and 20 gauge center shotgun barrel. Myself, I'd like the Hollywood version carried by Ed Harris in the new West World show, converted to cartridge and most likely a .44 short or .45 colt caliber (however likely impossible but that's Hollywood).
I love the French firearm joke. The "cheese eating surrender frogs" are a joke to the rest of the world.
DeleteTake your pick............ If I was a collector of this sort of early revolver, then Oh Boy!
ReplyDeleteBut I am a shooter so I will throw funds at my weakness, military centerfire sidearms. 1911, P-08, FN High Power, any S&W or Colt service revolvers. And of course the early black powder Colts. YMMV