Very Scarce ENGRAVED Antique GILLESPIE Percussion DERRINGER Pistol NEW YORK CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH Era RIVERBOAT GAMBLER’s Gun

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Very Scarce ENGRAVED Antique GILLESPIE Percussion DERRINGER Pistol NEW YORK

CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH Era RIVERBOAT GAMBLER’s Gun

Here Ancestry Guns presents an antique Engraved Gillespie Derringer Style Percussion Pistol, made circa the late 1840s-1860s in New York City. George Gillespie was a gun maker in the late 1840s into the mid to late-1860s and had his shop on Warren Street in New York. Gillespie and many others copied the Henry Deringer style of pistol. Gillespie marketed his guns in NYC from the 1850's through a bit after the Civil War. President Abraham Lincoln was shot and killed with one of Henry Deringer’s pocket sized percussion pistols, the night John Wilkes Booth revenged the South at the Ford Theater. Henry Deringer was a very successful Pennsylvanian gunsmith who started his own company in his early twenties, circa 1809.

The Civil War brought new technology to weapons and when sales of the Deringer pistol declined, Henry turned to the courts to defend his trademark.  Suits were brought against several of the imitators, but it was his successful 1863-70 case against A. J. Plate that set patent infringement history.  A District court awarded Deringer $1,770 in damages and issued a permanent injunction against Plate's use of the Deringer trademark. On appeal the California supreme court upheld the verdict.

The overall condition is good. Original mixed gray patinas. Strong action. The bore is good for its age. Lightly engraved lock. Markings are clear. The wood is very good, showing a stable small crack on the left flat. Replacement hammer screw.                                                    
                                                                                          
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Barrel is 3 inches.

Caliber: .45 Percussion

Overall condition as seen in photos.        

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$1750

#264006
 

Antique: Yes

Price: $1,750.00
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