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Unknown Pistol, Please ID

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Dug up in a yard in Indiana.
Helping a friend to identify the model and make.
No surviving inscriptions where found.
Any help would be appriciated.
 
Hey, that's a great find for your friend!
Three words..."Ask Mark Parker." He has some fantastic contacts for firearms ID and appraisal, and there's no charge:
Mark Parker
c/o Western & Eastern Treasures
P.O. Box 219, San Anselmo, CA 94979
As far as I know, he doesn't have a published e-mail address. You can try an e-mail to the magazine, but they will have to forward it to him:
treasurenet@prodigy.net
Best of luck,
Buckram
 
Thanks. Will foward the info. <img src="/metal/html/biggrin.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":D">
 
I remember as a kid a friend of mine (his dad) had one of those and they called it an english pin pistol. The shells had a little pin in the back that came out of the side and came thru the holes in the cylinder. The hammer then came down on the pins and fired the bullet. The trigger folded up, to go in the suit pocket to carry the pistol. I may be wrong on the english part but I am sure it was a pin pistol.. Sorry, I don't know more. HHing
 
Thanks to all of you for your help in old gun ID...I have gotten a lot of interesting responses from the links sent to me... one response: "it's a rotten looking piece, mass produced,and I would only give about $25 or $50 for any like it"... <img src="/metal/html/cry.gif" border=0 width=40 height=15 alt=":cry"> to another response of: "it is in better than relic condition, and a serious gun collector would probably give $300"... <img src="/metal/html/shocked.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":shock"> ...at any rate, it appears to be French or Belgian...and it is going to possibly get a spot in the Western and Eastern Treasure Magazine...this is fun.
Thanks again...Barb
 
From the link below<img src="http://www.rememuseum.org.uk/arms/pistols/armfppp/arm233.jpg" alt="" />
A solid frame, fixed cylinder, rod ejector revolver, having a single and double action and a folding trigger. A loading gate is located on the right hand side of the revolver and ejection is carried out by means of a manually operated ejector rod. The cylinder has six chambers. This type of revolver is a Belgian imitation of the Webley design, the quality of which is fair or poor. These pistols appear in numerous designs, with exposed or enclosed hammers, with or without trigger guards, with and without manual safeties, some with folding triggers, and in a tremendous range of lengths, weights, grip styles, etc. The range of calibres are tremendous also, in pin-fire type alone it is produced in 5 mm, 7 mm, 9 mm, 12 mm and 15 mm forms. These pistols were produced around the mid 19th Century.
Also with hex barrel:
<img src="http://www.rememuseum.org.uk/arms/pistols/armfppp/arm235.jpg" alt="" />
And another pin-fire listed as an 1860 civil war piece
 
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