Guns International #: 103045753
Seller's Inventory #: 247375

Category - Civil War Revolvers - Antique Revolvers - Cartridge

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Civil War Revolvers
Antique Revolvers - Cartridge

c1860s Antique KERR Revolver Copy by SPAIN MILITARY Spanish-American War .44 Centerfire DURANGO ARMORY CONVERSION

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c1860s Antique KERR Revolver Copy by SPAIN MILITARY Spanish-American War  

.44 Centerfire DURANGO ARMORY CONVERSION

Here we present an antique Durango Conversion Kerr Revolver, made circa the 1860s in Spain for the Spanish Navy. James Kerr designed this new revolver in .36 caliber and .45 caliber with production beginning in April 1859. The British government did not initially purchase the weapon and civilian sales were modest. However, the U.S. Civil War began in 1860 and the governments of both the United States and the Confederacy began purchasing arms in Britain. In November 1861, 1,600 revolvers were purchased for the Union army. However, Confederate arms buyers Maj. Caleb Huse and Cpt. James D. Bulloch contracted for all the rifles and revolvers the Armoury could produce, and the Confederate government could pay for. As a result, the London Armoury Company became a major arms supplier to the Confederacy, selling the most of the 11,000 Kerr revolvers produced to Huse.

As with all Confederate imports from England, these weapons had to pass through the Union blockade and the number that actually reached the Confederate army is unknown. Modern writers often state that the Confederates acclaimed the London Armoury Company's guns, which would include the Model 1853 rifle-muskets on the Enfield pattern, as the best weapons delivered to the Confederacy. The London Armoury Company supplied more revolvers to the Confederacy than the total produced by all the efforts of Southern manufacturers to make revolvers. As the Civil War progressed, the London Armoury Company was almost completely dependent on sales to the Confederacy and survived for only a year after the end of the war, dissolving in the Spring of 1866 whereupon they sold their tooling to Spain. These Spanish Kerrs were made in the 1860s and it is estimated that they were updated to .44 centerfire circa 1873 at the Durango Armory in Spain.

The overall condition is good. Refinished. The hammer and trigger are intermittently functional, mostly in single action mode. The cylinder does not revolve at present. The bore is dim and well rifled. The grip is solid. Numbers match throughout. Front sight absent. Snarled anchor stamp. With the tooling from the defunct London Armory Company, these Spanish Kerrs were in service through the Spanish American War in 1898!

Own the original! This is a legitimate antique and not a reproduction.
Barrel is 5-3/4 inches.
Caliber: 11mm or about .44 caliber
Overall condition as seen in photos.
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