What is it?

[tokashikibop]

Gents, I'm guessing a Smith and Wesson? Anybody need it?

Best regards,
Bob

 

[ikesdad]

I don't recall S&W making a brass frame revolver. The #1 & #1 1/2 revolvers were a tip up barrel, this frame is not. Someone added the trigger guard. Dunno what it is.

 

[Tailor Pete]

Looks perhaps to be from a Remington .31.

 

[ikesdad]

Not Remington, not S&W, not Colt, etc. The firing pin is in the center of the recoil shield. A firing pin means either rimfire or center fire - not percussion cap & ball. I'm thinking center fire. There is a steel firing pin bushing. Since the firing pin is centered in the recoil shield, it is not a revolver - it's a single shot. There are also no mechanics to rotate a cylinder or to lock one in place. The barrel tips forward to extract and reload. The elongated slot on the right side unlocked the barrel for doing that. Not from an expensive pistol as the frame is brass which is now cracked just in front of the recoil shield. A brass frame could mean a low pressure chambering. A possibility it's some type of shot pistol frame, firing a small gauge/caliber shot round. It's a paperweight now.

 

[Jobe Holiday]

It appears to be the remnants of a Flare Pistol.
J.

 

[UCVRelics]

Its a Remington Mark 3 Flare pistol

 

[mofederal]

Now that is interesting. I would say it is the frame of a flare gun. It has the look.

 

[Tailor Pete]

Not Remington, not S&W, not Colt, etc. The firing pin is in the center of the recoil shield. A firing pin means either rimfire or center fire - not percussion cap & ball. I'm thinking center fire. There is a steel firing pin bushing. Since the firing pin is centered in the recoil shield, it is not a revolver - it's a single shot. There are also no mechanics to rotate a cylinder or to lock one in place. The barrel tips forward to extract and reload. The elongated slot on the right side unlocked the barrel for doing that. Not from an expensive pistol as the frame is brass which is now cracked just in front of the recoil shield. A brass frame could mean a low pressure chambering. A possibility it's some type of shot pistol frame, firing a small gauge/caliber shot round. It's a paperweight now.

Good Eye! Couldn't make out those details on my cell phone. Further examination leads me to believe its either a flare gun or a starter pistol.

 

[ikesdad]

There ya go.

 

[Jobe Holiday]

Ucvrelics.com positivity identified the pistol frame after I said it looked like a Flare Pistol.
J.

 

[ikesdad]

Yes he did