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Hopkins & Allen Antique Revolvers

win62win62 Member Posts: 150 ✭✭
edited December 2001 in Ask the Experts
Any experts out there on Hopkins and Allen antique revolvers?
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  • john carrjohn carr Member Posts: 1,717 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Experts are just ordinary people with good reference books; I guess that includes me. What did you need to know?
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  • v35v35 Member Posts: 12,710 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Dont understate experience or the man will call the public library.
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  • win62win62 Member Posts: 150 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    On a Hoppkins & Allen hammerless what is the little "wheel" located where the hammer would be?
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  • john carrjohn carr Member Posts: 1,717 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    You must have the break-top H&A which isn't covered in Norm Flayderman's guide to antique arms. There is the old American Arms Co. breaktop, pat. date 1886 which has the "rocker" type push bar latch on the hump where the hammer would be which locked and released the trigger acting as a safety. Flayderman considered the later breaktop H&A's to be in the "suicide special" category of revolvers, and did not cover them in his descriptions.
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  • win62win62 Member Posts: 150 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    John Carr. Thanks for the info. This piece is in "New" condition. Care to approximate it's value?
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  • john carrjohn carr Member Posts: 1,717 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Unlike Norm Flayderman, I don't consider the H&A to be a "suicide special" anymore than the Iver Johnson and Harrington and Richardson. If this were either of the two, in new condition it would bring $95 - $125 depending on who wants it. Your H&A, I think, would bring considerably more than that, being an antique and with the unusual safety feature. It's hard to determine a value as I have never seen one like that at a gun show.
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  • win62win62 Member Posts: 150 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    John, OK. Thanks again for the info. I guess the H&A is rather unique. I will try to buy it. Phil
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