Guns International #: 103340337
Seller's Inventory #: 250295

Category - Derringer Antique - Antique Pistols - Percussion

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Derringer Antique
Antique Pistols - Percussion

ENGRAVED/SILVER Mounted SLOTTER & CO. Antique DERRINGER Percussion Pistol Period Copy of Henry Deringer’s Pistol J.P. LOWER

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ENGRAVED/SILVER Mounted SLOTTER & CO. Antique DERRINGER Percussion Pistol  

Period Copy of Henry Deringer’s Pistol J.P. LOWER

Here we present an antique J.P. Lower Marked Slotter & Co. Period Copy of Henry Deringer’s Percussion Pocket Pistol, made circa the early 1860s. 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. It was not until the 1850s that his prototypical “Deringer” percussion pistol became extremely popular. Once it did become popular, the basic design was copied in dozens of different shops. Not only was it copied, but Deringer’s good name was stamped on guns made by others, some of them not up to the quality standards of Deringer himself. The inventor was apparently very worried about protecting his good name, so he pursued and sued any of the counterfeiters that he could find and warned the buying public to beware of his spurious imitators.

J. P. Lower was a famed Denver gunsmith and entrepreneur. Just prior to his death in 1917, Lower related the following to his son who transcribed them.

“I sat for hours on end, looking at the mountains, remembering all the experiences my life had provided, good and bad. I saw the men I had wounded, the Indians I had killed and those they had killed, the heaps of buffalo hides and bones, the wasted, rotting carcasses created through my greed. I thought of all the guns I had sold to anyone who needed a weapon, how those weapons might have been used for ill-gotten gains, even murder. The gunrunning days, and all the other seen and unseen deeds of my customers, associated and acquaintances.”


The overall condition is good. Original dark brown patina. Strong action. The bore is good for its age. Chipped nipple. The wood contains an average amount of handling with a few filled repairs. Lightly engraved. Markings are legible.

Own the original! This is a legitimate antique and not a reproduction.

Barrel is 1-5/8 inches.

Caliber: .44 Percussion

Overall condition as seen in photos.        

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$1800

#250295
 

Antique: Yes

Price: $1,800.00
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