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Can you Identify this gun?

JJtheNoviceJJtheNovice Member Posts: 3 ✭✭
edited January 2008 in Ask the Experts
I have inherited this gun that has a serial number 27014 and no other identity marks. Can anyone help me determine what make of gun it is and what it is worth?

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  • JJtheNoviceJJtheNovice Member Posts: 3 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    This is a 25 revolver left to me by my father (deceased). If I remember the story correctly, He liberated this from a german soldier during WWII. Who made it, is it worth anything etc. It's trigger folds up and it is hammerless.

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    Shot with Canon PowerShot SD850 IS at 2008-01-24

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    Shot with Canon PowerShot SD850 IS at 2008-01-24
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    Shot with Canon PowerShot SD850 IS at 2008-01-24
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  • scrubberguyscrubberguy Member Posts: 219 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    JJ:
    I don't know what this is but I hope your Dad charged the soldier $25.00 plus not shooting him to take this away from him!

    On the serious side it's amazing what was on the market 70 years ago!

    Please keep this as an heirloom, it's probably worth more in memories than it ever will be in cash.[8D]
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  • rufe-snowrufe-snow Member Posts: 18,650 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    This type of inexpensive European revolver was known as a "puppy". Production of them was mostly in Belgium, some of them were also made in Germany, France and Spain though. They generally date to the years prior to the First World War. Yours might have been made for sale in Germany, as there appears to be a "Crown over N" German proof mark in the first picture.

    I can't identify the monogram/trademark on the grips, but a very similar revolver was made by Friedrich Pickert of Zella St Blasii Germany. Perhaps yours is just a cheep knock-off made in Spain or Belgium, for sale in Germany though?
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  • dfletcherdfletcher Member Posts: 8,178 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Looks like a copy of a European revolver known as a "Velo Dog".
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