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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Stumbled upon an old handgun...

« on: January 16, 2009, 10:10:44 am »

We have a winner, being a cap gun would certainly make the most sense and would explain its small size. So I did some searching and looked through some antique cap gun databases and I found the most similar looking gun I have ever found. Steven's was one of the few companies who made cap guns before WWII, they made them entirely of cast iron (which would explain the rust). I have not been able to find the exact model but I am almost 100% certain this is a Steven's cap gun. Never mind, as I was writing this post I found the exact cap gun.

Stevens 1923 BULL DOG (what I thought was DOC on the gun is actually DOG)
http://www.nicholscapguns.com/stevens2.htm

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Stumbled upon an old handgun...

« on: January 14, 2009, 03:43:53 pm »

The hammer has what looks like one solid ridge running horizontally across it. There could have been more but what was once there has now been weathered and rusted away, but I can definitely make out one very pronounced ridge. I have never seen a hammer like this one, it is rounded over towards the barrel.

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Stumbled upon an old handgun...

« on: January 11, 2009, 01:03:32 pm »

I looked into the Doc Holliday replica guns and I have found some which look similar, the problem is I have been running into a lot of cheaper replica toy guns (plastic) and very few fully metal replicas. But I certainly believe this could be a step in the right direction to finding out what it is. I just can't find anything with a similar looking hammer though.

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Stumbled upon an old handgun...

« on: January 09, 2009, 05:23:51 pm »

That is a good point, even if it is of no use to them they will at least know what to do with it. It is in such poor condition there is no way it could be of any value so otherwise it would just be sitting around my house. I did look at some antique Smith and Wesson and there are some which looked very similar but none with the same hammer.

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Antique Questions Forum / Stumbled upon an old handgun...

« on: January 09, 2009, 03:10:49 pm »

I was doing yard work and was moving some brush into the woods behind my house and I saw something jutting out of the dirt, it turned out to be a handgun. It is fairly small about 6" in length and very rusted but the hammer can still be pulled back (which then moves the trigger forward). above the trigger on the left side of the gun it says "DOC" and below that at the top of the handle there is a "S" which is encircled and rotated sideways a bit. On the right side directly across from the "S" there is a "W" portrayed the same way. Other than that any other marking are far to illegible for me to even take a guess at what they say. I have no idea if this is even a real gun, it is made completely of metal (as the rust indicates ) and feels very solid. I live in the Boston area if that helps, I am searching for any information anybody can offer.