The Confederate Colt

[Legion Para]

 

[Legion Para]

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[Cpl. Smith]

I'll have to find.these books. Do you know if there still in print?

 

[Legion Para]

I'll have to find.these books. Do you know if there still in print?

1st edition copies can still be had and both books have been reprinted

 

[UCVRelics]

The story of Leech & Rigdon aka Memphis Novelty Works is one of a great read. The Memphis Novelty Works was the firm of Thomas Leech, and was organized in Memphis, Tenn. about September, 1861, to manufacture "army cutlery." Along with Charles Rigdon, Leech produced various pattern swords at Memphis until about May 1, 1862, when, due to the danger of that city being captured, the firm moved to Columbus, Mississippi. Thereafter the firm was known as the "Novelty Works/Leech & Rigdon. It produced swords, revolvers and other "cutlery"

 

[sourdough]

The video is actually fairly accurate with the info he disseminates. The first mistake is when he has Rigdon's name as Thomas but he refers to Rigdon as Charles later on.

I have no financial means to purchase any originals, so I have chosen to go with new Italian (Pietta) replicas. They are plainly seen as repros with the Italian proofmarks and billboards. I do not and will not defarb/antique them so as to appear to be old guns to unsuspecting future buyers (intentionally or unintentionally). They are repros for my enjoyment and nothing more. All are .36 caliber like the originals

Leech and Rigdon:

I had a spare plain non-roll-marked cylinder with no cylinder safety pins and had my machinist neighbor cut 6 more stop slots in it, so

Rigdon and Ansley:

Since the title of this thread is "The Confederate Colt" I must include the Griswold and Gunnison:

To be sure, there were other manufacturers of Confederate 1851 Navy copies (Augusta Machine Works, Columbus Firearms Company, et al) which are very scarce and hard to identify.

I have both of the books mentioned above and a few more.

Thanks for allowing me to participate here.

Regards,

Jim

 

[Cpl. Smith]

The video is actually fairly accurate with the info he disseminates. The first mistake is when he has Rigdon's name as Thomas but he refers to Rigdon as Charles later on.

I have no financial means to purchase any originals, so I have chosen to go with new Italian (Pietta) replicas. They are plainly seen as repros with the Italian proofmarks and billboards. I do not and will not defarb/antique them so as to appear to be old guns to unsuspecting future buyers (intentionally or unintentionally). They are repros for my enjoyment and nothing more. All are .36 caliber like the originals

Leech and Rigdon:

I had a spare plain non-roll-marked cylinder with no cylinder safety pins and had my machinist neighbor cut 6 more stop slots in it, so

Rigdon and Ansley:

Since the title of this thread is "The Confederate Colt" I must include the Griswold and Gunnison:

To be sure, there were other manufacturers of Confederate 1851 Navy copies (Augusta Machine Works, Columbus Firearms Company, et al) which are very scarce and hard to identify.

I have both of the books mentioned above and a few more.

Thanks for allowing me to participate here.

Regards,

Jim

Nice guns! Got a Uberti 1847 Walker myself.

 

[Legion Para]

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[Cpl. Smith]

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Saw it once a few years ago. Sadly couldn't afford it.

 

[Legion Para]

Saw it once a few years ago. Sadly couldn't afford it.

This book has been reprinted.

 

[sourdough]

This book has been reprinted.

I have that one also with a very tattered dust jacket. Very good read!

Jim

 

[sourdough]

Can't forget about my favorite, even if it is a brass-framed pistol!

Jim

 

[sourdough]

Sorry, double post.

 

[Cpl. Smith]

Can't forget about my favorite, even if it is a brass-framed pistol!

Jim

One of the few confederate brass frame revolvers! I know they made quite a gew.

 

[sourdough]

One of the few confederate brass frame revolvers! I know they made quite a few.

Actually, Schneider and Glassick preceded the G&G insofar as brass framed 1851 Navy copies produced by the Confederates. As far as common knowledge goes, there are only 3 left in existence unless someone has one stashed in great-grandma's attic.

2 are brass framed and one is iron framed. The funny thing is that in the early years of repros, in the interest of selling guns, there were many Italian guns produced/sold (that were cheaper than steel) 1851 Navy brass framed .36 copies and never advertised as S&G copies, because I frankly do not think they had any idea.

Dr. Jim L. Davis addressed that years ago as the "accidental Schneider & Glassick".

http://rprca.tripod.com/Schneider.html

The last time I checked, he was in poor health and do not if he is still alive. He was a great source of information insofar as replicas.

Nuff said.

Jim

 

[Rusk County Avengers]

Gotta Love cap'n'ball revolvers, my first one was an old,old Navy Arms .44 "Griswold", and have had many sense. Thankfully we have folks like Pietta, and Uberti to make repops for us, because the originals are so rare and expensive, my only criticisms being the Pietta "Dance Revolver" doesn't resemble the original at all, (I used to know an old man who traded a '73 Winchester for one, with the original holster, their closer to the Colt Dragoon in .44), and Uberti color case-hardens the Leech and Rigdon's, whereas the original's frames were blued with no case-hardening.

Oh, and Sourdough, love what you did there.

I had a spare plain non-roll-marked cylinder with no cylinder safety pins and had my machinist neighbor cut 6 more stop slots in it, so

Rigdon and Ansley:

 

[donna]

Thanks for all this information. I know hardly anything about guns. My husband has several. I know he would enjoy books you listed.

 

[Cpl. Smith]

Thanks for all this information. I know hardly anything about guns. My husband has several. I know he would enjoy books you listed.

While there are two types of items that if they could talk would scare you. Old military uniforms, and old guns.

 

[Larryh86GT]

Great info.

 

[donna]

I am not scared of guns. It is some humans who have them. A gun can't hurt you unless a human wants to use it to hurt people.