Remington Society

Is it an 1890? Is the barrel marking E. Remington & Sons, or Remington Arms? The mainspring is incorrect.The web doesn't look quite right. But, that may be my eyes. The file marks could mean just about anything that your imagination can come up with. The usual is that the gun has 4 bodies on it, but...

If you want to shoot it, use the repo parts. If it won't be shot, then I'd use the original parts.
Good luck

Does the serial on the trigger guard tab also match? What finish does the gun have? You have a rare gun so enjoy it.

Have you tried Dixie Gun Works for parts? Another source is Jim Shaffer, 412-672-6830. You can also post a WTB in the RSA journal on on this site.

Those are probably plastic grips made in the 1950s or 60s. Mother of Pearl is too brittle to checker, an d real ivory doesn't have the color pattern that those grips have. Remington escutcheons have three small points equally spaced around the circumference so I believe that the escutcheons came wit...

You have a very rare and desirable gun. Very few were made in 45 Colt. The Cylinder looks like its a 45, but try a 45 or 44 case to make sure. The 11.453 is the metric designation of .45 leading to the possibility that it was sent to another country, but then why hide the number under the grip panel...

There is a fourth model of the pocket pistol. It has a brass frame and a steel trigger guard. Remington would have introduce parts changes during production and would use the old parts first, thus creating several models.

It appears that you have either a Remington, Single Action Belt Model, or a Police model. The screws on the belt or police models enter the frame from the right while the Army and Navy models have screws that enter the frame from the left. A Belt barrel should be 6 1/2", while a police barrel could ...

In general, Remington pistols will have the screws, hammer, and trigger blued. The trigger guard usually had the same finish as the rest of the pistol. Check the tab on the trigger guard to see if the number matches the frame number. If so you're safe in believing that its the original finish. If no...

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Dan

Are you sure that the frame is brass? Only about 650 brass frame pockets are believed to have been made, so a brass frame pocket should have a number below 1000. Some people believe that the brass frames were made overlapping the iron frames and that explains the why there are brass frames with 4-di...

In his book on Remington Army and Navy pistols, Don Ware believes that when the design changes were made on the single wing pistols, the new versions were serialed from the number 1. I don't believe that he gave a reason other than there are duplicate numbers on the "regular" Beals Navies.

Marv Adams specializes in Rem 51 parts. He should have anything you need. The only contact info that I have is a 4 year old phone number in OH, so EST. 419 - 230 - 7948
Good luck,
Dan

For Repo try Ken van Patten (vanpatten3376@comcast.net), Dixie Gun Works and Numrich Gun Parts. For Original you should try Jim Shaffer, 412-672-6830 (11am-7pm EST). He can be pricy, so how bad do you want it?

Dan

There might be some factory nickel M-51s, but only one that I'm aware of, that is confirmed as factory nickel. The edges on the gun in the original post appear rounded, not sharp and crisp, so I suspect that it's a re-finish. Having said the above, I am of the opinion that a few nickel guns must hav...