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Derringer Style Pistol With Scarce St. Louis Retailer Marking of Horace Dimick
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Here is a very tough to find little gun. This is and original H.E. Dimick & Co Marked Derringer style single shot pistol. This is one of the many maker's that made guns designed on the famous style of Henry Derringer of Philadelphia. This little jewel measures 5-3/4th inches in overall size and fires a single bullet of .45 caliber from the full-length 2-1/2 inch octagonal wedge retained barrel. The single piece wooden stock is detailed with the German silver mountings, and sports a checkered walnut bird's head grip. Single shot percussion ignition derringer pocket pistol. The top of barrel marked in small letters with a correct style gang stamp "H.E. DIMICK & Co." Horace E. Dimick (1809-1874) was probably the most prolific of the famed St. Louis makers of Plains Rifles. A direct competitor with the famous Hawken shop, Dimick produced his variation of their famous plains rifle, as well as smaller caliber sporting and hunting rifles, target rifles and even delivered roughly 1,000 rifles that were used to arm Birge's Western Sharpshooters (14th Missouri Volunteer Infantry) which was later redesignated as the 66th Illinois Volunteer Infantry. Those Dimick rifles did yeoman's service during the first 12-18 months of the Civil War in the Western Theater, in particular at battles like Fort Donelson and Shiloh. Dimick also imported large numbers of guns from England and Belgium and offered these guns with his retailer mark on them along with American produced guns like Metropolitan Navy percussion revolvers and derringer style pistols. Next to the Hawkens, Dimick is probably the most famous and collectible of the St. Louis Gun makers. It has the back action style lock that is unmarked and the mechanics still catch crisply on both positions. The lock, hammer and barrel have the flowing foliate engraving, the hammer neck has the matching foliate engraving. The hammer retained with spanner nut, somewhat uncommon on derringers of the era, other than those made by Constable in Philadelphia. Dimick was both a maker and retailer, so often his retailer mark was applied to guns that he did not produce. The barrel breech has the German silver bands and lightly engraved with feathery motifs. It has the pretty German silver triggerguard, stock flat escutcheon and butt insert that are all engraved as well. The shield shaped thumb plate has a border line engraved but is otherwise blank. This is a beautiful little gun from a St. Louis retailer that has a very interesting history.
Item #: C3731 Shipping Weight:
1 lb
Your Price:$2,650.00 USD
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