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What is it (pin fire revolver)

celsecelse Member Posts: 344 ✭✭✭
edited April 2014 in Ask the Experts
Coult 36 be the serial number? Caliber? English?
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    rufe-snowrufe-snow Member Posts: 18,650 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    "Crown U". Appears to me to be a German proof mark. Seems awful late, for the manufacture of a Pinfire revolver though? Mandatory proofing wasn't instituted in Germany until the early 1890's. With the advent of smokeless powder.

    European Pinfire's were chambered for metric calibers. I believe they started at 6mm, and went all the way up to 12mm, for the military holster pistols.

    Quite a number were brought back as souvenirs, by our GI's after the war.
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    Hawk CarseHawk Carse Member Posts: 4,369 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yup, German proof marks.
    German proof marks were standardized in 1891 and they were building pinfires at least up until WW I.

    I think 36 is a "batch number." The gunsmith's guild had an order for, say, 200 guns from a distributor, so they numbered them 1-200. The next order came in and the makers started over at 1.
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