Civil war Pistol? cocked and ready to fire

[cmthunder]

Memorial Day weekend hunt at Civil War site.
Found Pistol on confederate side of cavalry battle in Western Md.
Also Confederate Gardner 54 cal minie ball.
Dug a lot of iron. Hunted out site. It may be percussion pistol?

 

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[RVRoamer73]

That sure looks to be a CW pistol. I hope you can get some kind of positive ID on it. But no matter,
that's dang cool and a awesome find. Congrats!

 

[creskol]

Looks like a .40 cal European single shot boot pistol of the Civil War era.

 

[Colonial Digger]

An amazing history find congrats!!!!

 

[creskol]

I see you were in Western Maryland .. I use to hunt the Rohresville area quite a bot in the late 60's and early 70's.
Congrats on your pistol find.. That one should clean up nicely!

 

[UnderMiner]

I agree, looks like a boot pistol with an octagonal barrel.

 

[1637]

yes percussion,you can see where the cap goes. what a cool find.
brad

 

[devldog]

Great save on the CW pistol. Congrat's on a Great Historical artifact. Let us know how it cleans up. This will be a great Display piece.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Killer piece of history, congrats!

 

[Digger RJ]

Very Cool!!!! Congrats!!!

 

[Mudflap]

Very nice find! Cool!

 

[MKW]

Wow, that is incredible! Congrats!

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

What an amazing find, man you had a great hunt!

I wonder if a dose of electrolysis would help to preserve your gun or if would cause it to fall to pieces.

Dave

 

[EccentricInTexas]

Those little derringers were very popular, this was also the same style of one used by Booth to shoot Lincoln.

 

[A2coins]

Thats amazing even just like that would be a great display piece I love the shape on the Barrel Awesome find......Tommy

 

[Trezurehunter]

Congrats on an excellent find.

 

[Silver Tree Chaser]

Great save on the CW pistol. Congrat's on a Great Historical artifact. Let us know how it cleans up. This will be a great Display piece.

Yes to all. Definitely conserve that pistol. It should make for a wonderful display.

 

[xcopperstax]

Pretty amazing that it was ready to fire! I would be really excited to find something like that! Congrats on it!

 

[cmthunder]

Here’s the pistol cleaned up to date soaked in evaporust.

 

[thrifty76now]

A very neat find.