Hope they dont try to take my new GUN!!!

[fishstick]

Hope they don't try to take my new GUN!!!

Hi there fellow t-netters. I found this a few weeks back at an old homested that is now a bean field. It was a overload signal that I could'nt pass up. I'm hopin for sum HELP with it. It's 4 and 1/2 inches long and looks to be a black powder boot pistol. It has a name on it but a plow mark goes right through it. The letters are A.S with HER below it. The mark cuts off the rest of the name but there looks like the letter C way past the a.s up top. There are numbers on the handle,9350 and they look like OLD style #'s. I wood also like to know what to seal it with. THANX for any help and for lookin.. HH

 

[WHADIFIND]

Hi there fellow t-netters. I found this a few weeks back at an old homested that is now a bean field. It was a overload signal that I could'nt pass up. I'm hopin for sum HELP with it. It's 4 and 1/2 inches long and looks to be a black powder boot pistol. It has a name on it but a plow mark goes right through it. The letters are A.S with HER below it. The mark cuts off the rest of the name but there looks like the letter C way past the a.s up top. There are numbers on the handle,9350 and they look like OLD style #'s. I wood also like to know what to seal it with. THANX for any help and for lookin.. HH

Is that a pepperbox?

I think you'd be safe as long as you don't try to get a 500 round clip for it.

Really nice find!

HH!

 

[LuckyThirteen08]

That is a really nice find!! Thanks for sharing!!

HH John

 

[fishstick]

Is that a pepperbox?

I think you'd be safe as long as you don't try to get a 500 round clip for it.

Really nice find!

HH!

THANX BUD!! Not real sure what a pepperbox is.

 

[WHADIFIND]

THANX BUD!! Not real sure what a pepperbox is.

Just google pepperbox, plenty info.

In any case, I really nice find.

HH!

 

[hamiddetecting]

 

[JmCraz8]

Wow awesome find!!! Volcanic pistol?

 

[AU Seeker]

The lettering is A.S.T. CO. HERO. it's A.S.T. Co. first model HERO, a .34 caliber boot/muff pistol (I also found some websites that say that some HEROs were .41 caliber), it was made between 1868-1873, the manufacturer is The Manhattan Fire Arms Manufacturing Co., who later changed their name to American Standard Tool Company.

The number is the serial number.

http://manhattanfirearms.com/

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Hand-Gun; Pistol, American Standard Tool, Percussion, Hero Single Shot. [p4a.com, ltd.]

http://www.thefirearmsforum.com/showthread.php?t=66557

GuidePercussion

 

[John Boy]

Man that's one sweet pistol.congrats

 

[VOL1266-X]

Very cool find FS!! Wtg, Q.

 

[mangum]

Very nice find! Not everyday you dig a pistol from the 1870s!

 

[Bob-E-Pin]

Dude that's so sick!

 

[wheatfinder13]

Awesome pistol

 

[CoilyGirl]

Niiiiccce

 

[matt092079]

Awesome save!

 

[Erik in NJ]

Beautiful find brother! You're lucky you can still dig--ground is hard as a rock here in northern NJ

 

[fishstick]

THANX EVERYONE!!!!!!!
HUGE THANX TO AU SEEKER!!!!!!!!!
That's the info I was lookin for. This site is truly the BEST!!
BTW, what wood be the best to seal it? The barrel is startin to flake. THANX again and HH

 

[AU Seeker]

Fishstix,

Your welcome.

You may want to contact the guy at the Manhattan Firearms website, he does ask for anyone to send him pictures of any Manhattan gun that they have, he also maybe interested in the fact that your HERO pistol has a serial number of 9350 since on his site he estimates that the A.S.T. Co. first models HERO pistols serial numbers start at 11,000!!

He also maybe able to tell you the best process for keeping your pistol from deteriorating any more than it is.

 

[kuger]

Fishstix,

Your welcome.

You may want to contact the guy at the Manhattan Firearms website, he does ask for anyone to send him pictures of any Manhattan gun that they have, he also maybe interested in the fact that your HERO pistol has a serial number of 9350 since on his site he estimates that the A.S.T. Co. first models HERO pistols serial numbers start at 11,000!!

He also maybe able to tell you the best process for keeping your pistol from deteriorating any more than it is.

Great folks over there I sent then some info on a pepper box I have and my buddy Ironman did as well with a revolver he foun

 

[dig kzoo]

Way cool!!