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RARE Remington-Beals 1st Model .31 Pocket Revolver

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:25.00 USD Estimated At:750.00 - 1,400.00 USD
RARE Remington-Beals 1st Model .31 Pocket Revolver
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The lot features a Historically Significant Remington-Beals First Model Pocket Revolver. The revolver shows a 5-shot rotating cylinder chambered in a .31 percussion caliber. The firearm shows an immensely low serial number of 80, with only 4500-5000 of these rare firearms being manufactured from 1857-1858 this early serial number is truly a rare find. The firearm is historically significant as it was the very FIRST REVOLVER model every made by the famed Remington Factory. The Remington-Beals Pocket Revolver was only manufactured for approximately one year with the associated patent date by Beals coinciding with the expiration of Samuel Colt’s master patent in 1857. This firearm can be considered the “Grandfather of all later Remington Handguns”! The piece was made with a unique outside short curved “pawl” that rotates the cylinder, a 3” octagon barrel with original con front sight, and a smooth finish gutta percha grips (being offered here without and cracks or chips and displaying the factory original matching serial number 80 on the bottom). Other unique features of the firearm include the German Silver trigger guard and the frame being marked “MANUFACTURED BY REMINGTONS, ILION, NY” with the barrel top marked “F. BEAL’S PATENT, JUNE 24, ’56 & MAY 26, ’57.” Firearms engineer Fordyce Beals (1807-1870) collaborated with the famed E. Remington & Sons firearms manufactures for two brief stints, with both later developing what would become this Remington-Beals 1st Model pocket revolver, the first mass produced revolver under the Remington name sold to the general public. The metal surfaces show a desirable aged, uncleaned original patina with no evidence of abuse or repairs. All original parts and springs are found to be intact on this very difficult to obtain and key revolver. This truly would be an excellent addition to any antique American arms collections especially a Remington collection, and it would be a very hard to upgrade from this excellent example. Remington’s First Pocket Revolver manufactured for only a year, four years preceding the Civil War.