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Thank you, Bill. Your answer reassures me. I am a collector and I think I have heard too much about the importance of matching numbers...

I recently acquired this beautiful engraved and gold plated Remington over-under, but I discovered that the barrels and frame don't have the same number. A guy told me that there was nothing
wrong with this as it often occured on this model. What do you think ?

Many thanks for your help.


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I couln't see the photo of your Rider Pocket revolver since it has bee withdrawn from the website, so I don't know if it is the percussion or the metallic cartridge conversion.

The percussion version was offered only with a 3" barrel, whereas the cartridge one was available with 2 (scarce), 2 1/2 ...

I just got a n° 3 "sawhandle" Remington-Smoot equipped with walnut grips.

According to the book " A study Of Remington's Smoot Patent & Number Four Revolvers", of all the Smoot models, only the sawhandle variant had wood grips offered as an option. And also according to the sampling that the three ...

I just got this two tones Beals Navy in its original finish with nickeled frame, blued barrel and cylinder. The nickle plating was well made as iti is still 99 % present with only some small blisters on the left side.

I knew that Remington has made such two tones guns, but it is the first one I see.

Sorry, but your gun is not original. The marking on the barrel should be on 3 lines and should read like this :

PATENTED SEPT. 14, 1858
E.REMINGTON & SONS, ILION, NEW YORK, U.S.A.
NEW MODEL

Beside, the top of the grip should be rounded and come flush with the frame. The front sight is not correct ...

Hi Daniel,

First, my n° 4 is nickel plated. Also, I do have a copy of Dr. Parkers book, “A Study of Remington’s Smoot Patent & Number Four Revolvers”, and on page 32, I read :

It is also significant that the 1877 catalog and those that followed in 1883 did not distinguish in any manner the ivory ...

I have this Remington New Model n° 4 in caliber .41 CF (rarer than the .41 RF version) which has the famous "Remington ivory grips". These grips are famous because toward the end of the 1870's, Remington replaced the real ivory grips that they proposed as an option with fake ivory made with a ...

Here are photos of the german silver cone sigth on my 1861 barrel :

One thing is sure. The cartouche on the grips is not original ! It has at least been re-engraved.

Wow, beautiful gun in great condition !!

This gun is a New Model Pocket percussion revolver of which around 25,000 units were produced from 1865 to 1873. The value of the converted version is less than the original percussion one.

According to the 2019 edition of the Blue Book of Antique American Firearms and Values, the value of a ...

I'd say that this gun was well pitted and has been very heavily buffed, and even filed.

Happy new year to all members of this forum !

These unlicensed copies were in fact very numerous. Most of them were made in Spain and Mexico and perhaps other countries.

Here is one, which I'd say is Spanish, that I sold a while ago.