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The Antique Arms Gazette Newsletter of Old Guns Canada, Delta BC Vol -1- The Antique Arms Gazette Newsletter of Old Guns Canada, Delta BC Vol. 1 No. 5 www.oldgunscanada.com Gun Show Retrospective design already started under Moore’s to become one of the most widely copied March and April have been busy months, guidance. These little gems proved so handguns in Europe, partly because he was with a different show just about every week popular that the Colt Firearms Co. which not granted a patent until four years after end: Chilliwack, Calgary, Kamloops and purchased National in 1870, continued his death in 1904, but also be cause the Cloverdale. In retrospect I have to say that producing them for another ten years. guns proved to be reliable, effective and although they were all very enjoyable and Therefore, we find practically identical very popular. The velo-dog cartridge was a much good conversation was had, it was all deringers with a possible three addresses long, 7.2mm center-fire cartridge which in all slow, and sales were “lacking”. All the and makers. The Model No. 1 in all-steel packed a serious punch. Galand’s other vendors I spoke with, from Chilliwack to construction and the Model No. 2 with iron achievements include the Galand-Perrin Calgary and in Kamloops, too, were frame and rosewood grips. National was in (Galand–Sommerville) revolver, which was concerned with the lack of cash customers business for only five years, and only about widely used by military and police in were willing to part with. Even the crowds 3,000 were made with the National name. Europe. Galand had shops in both Paris as were down from previous years – Alberta The deringers are solid, with a side- well as Liege, and identical specimens of still has not recovered from the oil sands his guns may be found with either address. pivoting barrel and an extractor attached to crisis, and people in BC are reluctant to One of his most unusual inventions was the the left side of the breech which hooks spend their money, too. One vendor in “self-extracting” revolver of 1872 which under the rim of the .41 short rim fire Cloverdale thought she did only half of the cartridge and pulls it clear of the barrel utilizes an ingenious lever mechanism to business from last year. I did fairly well in when it is opened. A spring-loaded button slide the barrel and cylinder assembly Calgary, and although Kamloops and on the right side unlocks the barrel and forward to extract the spent cartridges. Cloverdale looked at first to be a total bust, allows it to pivot to the left. The sides of Galand died in 1900, at the age of 68. He late sales toward the end of the show made the frame are factory engraved, and the was succeeded by his son Rene who it all worth while…I managed to pick up a barrels blued. National also made a large- continued the family business until 1942. few goodies, too! frame teat-fire revolver based on Moore’s famous Williamson’s patent front-loading Old Guns Canada Now Accepts Credit revolvers, this one in a specially designed Cards .45 caliber teat fire cartridge. One thing I learned in a hurry in Calgary is that when someone is willing to spend a couple of thousand dollars on a choice gun, he (or she) has to be able to charge it to a credit card. Not many people walk around with that kind of cash in their pockets. My table neighbour was using one of those “square” card readers which hooks up to your cell phone, and presto, you have made the sale. I am happy to say that the whole set-up process took mere minutes and now I National Arms Model No. 2 can also process credit cards, both in person as well as over the internet. It’s a bit costly The Charles Francois Galand Self- though, and I do have to charge a bit extra Extracting Revolver of 1872 to those who wish to pay by credit. Money Charles F. Galand is perhaps best known as orders, checks and e-transfers are still the the inventor of the Velo-Dog cartridge and preferred mode of payment… gun. In the days of stray dogs and cyclists of the late 19th century Galand saw a need Very fine Galand 1872 self-extracting National Arms, Brooklyn, New York to provide cyclists (velocipede) a small, revolver in 12mm center fire, with Liege The National Arms Company was founded reliable handgun to defend themselves proof marks out of the “ashes” of the Moore’s Patent against aggressive stray dogs in the streets Firearms Co. in 1865. It is best known for and fields of France. The velo-dog proved its single-shot, large caliber Deringers, the -2- Joseph Rider Smith and Wesson .44 Russian New on the Website Joseph Rider was born in 1817 in Newark, To write about such iconic gun makers as The gun shows of this spring have brought Licking County, Ohio. A trained gunsmith S&W or Colt is an exercise in futility. So in a few new items, which I have listed for and inventor, he moved to New York at age much has been written and said, that the sale on the website: Look for the National 42 to work for Eliphalet Remington & Sons casual collector could not possibly add Arms Deringers, a fabulous Belgian made where he remained for most of his career. anything new. I am only going to write a Galand Revolver, a S&W .44 Russian, and Rider had received a patent for a revolver few lines about the Russian who is – more more… check it out! already a year before his relationship with or less – responsible for the .44 “Russian”. Remington began, however this gun was The name of the gun, and the special Did you know… produced at Remington and would become cartridge made for it was all American, not Horace Smith and Dan Wesson got their known as the Remington-Rider pocket made in Russia as the name may suggest. It start in business together manufacturing revolver, one of the first double-action was Czar Nicholas’ envoy to the US (and what is known today as the “iron frame” revolvers in American history made in later Britain), one General Alexander volcanic magazine pistol in 1852. They only volume, and the factory converted version Gorloff who approached S&W to produce ever made about 1,000 of them before to a metallic cartridge made this the first the impressive .44 American revolver for selling their interest to the newly formed American double-action cartridge revolver. the Imperial Army, however he added the Volcanic Repeating Arms Co in 1855. Both Rider went on to develop other innovations condition that S&W develop an internally Smith and Wesson stayed on as employees important in the history of the American lubricated cartridge. The general pointed out for a short while but left their positions to gun, one being the magazine pistol. This that the commonly used, external lubricant return to Springfield in 1856 from Norwich, small handgun, known as the Remington- was prone to picking up “contaminants” (ie CT where they formed a new partnership to Rider magazine pistol, was produced in the – dirt and sand) which, when fired through produce a revolutionary new revolver tiny .32 rim fire extra short caliber, from the barrel would over time scratch and erode utilizing a self-contained metal cartridge. 1871 to 1888. It has an ingenious cocking the interior of the barrel. S&W reduced the Volcanic changed the iron frame to a more and feeding mechanism: the gun seems to diameter of the bullet slightly, added easily and cheaper to make brass frame, and have two hammers, a large one and a “lubrication grooves” below the cartridge subsequently went into bankruptcy in 1857. smaller one behind it. The larger one is mouth and thus was able to provide bullet Oliver Winchester bought the remains of actually the extractor and feeding lever, lubrication without any sticky material on Volcanic and, in 1866, formed the which also cocks the smaller, real hammer the surface. This design also produced Winchester Repeating Arms Company, when it is pulled back. The spent cartridge significantly higher barrel pressure and with which is an entirely different story by itself. is extracted and a new cartridge fed from the it a much higher muzzle velocity. It was one Smith and Wesson made the monumental tube magazine below the barrel into the of these “watershed” inventions which decision to purchase Rollin White’s patent breech as the lever is released, closing the would propel (pardon the pun) cartridge for the bored-through cylinder which breech. The magazine holds five cartridges design forward by leaps. S&W produced launched their legendary reputation in the and is loaded from the muzzle end of the some 130,000 Model 3’s (as they are revolver market. Even more so than Colt, gun. This invention was an important step in officially called) for the Russians. The .44 S&W is the most famous revolver in the American hand gun development and the Russian became so popular, S&W also sold world… first magazine-fed cartridge pistol to be them commercially in the US and Europe, commercially produced. It is also one of the and they were used as military and police most unusual handgun inventions of the 19th side arms until the 1920’s, not just in century… Russia. Since it has been proved that all of these S&W .44 DA revolver frames were made prior to 1899, they are considered antique, even though many were not assembled until early in the 20th century.
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