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Antique Period Belgian DERINGER COPY Peter Kraft Columbia, South Carolina Engraved, Pocket Sized Hideout Pistol
Guns International #: 102642507 Seller's Inventory #: 230048
Category: Antique Pistols - Percussion - Derringer Antique
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Seller: AncestryGunsLLC
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State: Missouri
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Description:
Antique Period Belgian DERINGER COPY Peter Kraft Columbia, South Carolina
Engraved, Pocket Sized Hideout Pistol
Here we present an antique Belgian Deringer Type Percussion Pistol, made circa the 1850s likely in Columbia, South Carolina. Oral tradition for this pistol has it that Peter W. Kraft of Columbia, South Carolina was the maker or seller of this particular pistol. He was an immigrant from Baden-Würrtemberg, Germany, beginning his business in 1846 in Columbia and was known to have sold copies of Deringer’s pistols with barrels from Liege, Belgium. According to his obituary, he was in business until the early 1890s. Wilson and Eberhart note that he brought his sons into the business in the 1880s. He died in 1903.
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.
The name “Deringer” often invokes certain historical event, characters or moments in film. Deringer’s name has become both a noun and a catch-all term. 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. They conjure images of the California Gold Rush, as well as riverboat gamblers. These pistols were very practical for the time, being small and concealable and of large bore size.
The overall condition is very good. Gray patina. Very nice engraving. The action is excellent. The bore is in good condition with strong rifling. The stock is in good condition with some small, stable splits on either side of the forestock, near the muzzle, and at the left stock flat at the lock screw.
Own the original! This is a legitimate antique and not a reproduction.
Barrel is 1-3/8 inches.
Caliber: .38 Percussion
Overall condition as seen in photos.
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$1800
#230048
Price: $1,800.00
Antique: Yes