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Description
Make: Allen & Wheelock
Model: 1858 Army/Navy
Caliber: .44 Cal / .36 Cal BP
Action: SA
Barrel: 7.5 / 6
Bore: Dark
Serial # NSN
Condition: Good
“Collectors” A Very Rare Opportunity to own this set! Here we present a very rare antique Allen & Wheelock Second Model Center Hammer Lipfire Army Revolver, made circa 1861 in Worcester, Massachusetts, at the start of the American Civil War. These were produced in both .44 Army caliber and .36 Navy caliber. According to Flayderman, these revolvers only had a production of about 250 pieces till both Allen & Wheelock a ran into the Rollins White patent infringement. They were for the most part converted to percussion to resolve the problem. Of those 250 Lipfires manufactured, many were converted, so finding an original revolver still in Lipfire are few...