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Allen&Wheelock Bar Hammer .34 Cal Pocket Revolver

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:25.00 USD Estimated At:750.00 - 1,450.00 USD
Allen&Wheelock Bar Hammer .34 Cal Pocket Revolver
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This lot features a Allen & Wheelock Bar Hammer Medium Frame .34 Caliber Pocket Revolver. This is a fascinating handgun of the transition period when Allen & Thurber/Allen & Wheelock were moving away from the pepperbox design of multi-barrel/bar hammer/double action pistols to the more modern and accepted revolver of multi-chambered cylinder and single barrel construction. Within a few years, Allen & Wheelock fazed out this model for more modern designs resembling Remington and Colt models. Only about 500 of these unique revolvers were made between 1857 and the early 1860s. Like the famed Allen pepperbox, this revolver exhibits the double action mechanism in which a single pull of the trigger cocks the hammer, revolves the cylinder and fires the gun. Also like the pepperbox, this arm retains the bar hammer and “bag” grips. Basically the rear of this handgun is of pepperbox design while the front has the new frame holding a single octagon barrel of 3” length. The barrel is correctly marked on the barrel which was manufactured with no provision for a front sight is “ALLEN & WHEELOCK WORCESTER, MASS./ALLEN’S PATENT APRIL 16, 1845.” The classic bar hammer is marked on the side “PATENTED APRIL 16, 1845” which is a holdover from the old pepperbox days. This is “Batch” serial numbered, this example shows #938 on the barrel side. Many of these saw service on both sides during the Civil War as personal weapons purchased by officers and enlisted men. With so few manufactured, survival rate in any condition is very small and examples of this unique revolver are few. It has original walnut grips showing aged barrel blue with fine cylinder roll engraved forest scene of deer and dogs. The revolver has fine mechanics with splay in the cylinder, and metal showing no abuse or cleaning. Antique firearm. NO FFL transfer or NICS background check required. The serial number is 938.