Looking for info

buckleymarka56 · Nov 15, 2024

I bought this pistol for 75 bucks.
It's never been fired.
Anyone know these markings
Amy help is appreciated

Stykbow · Nov 15, 2024

I can tell you it’s an Italian reproduction based on the PN proof mark.

buckleymarka56 · Nov 15, 2024

Stykbow said:
I can tell you it’s an Italian reproduction based on the PN proof mark.

Yrs , that i know,I want to know why made it and when.
I shoot BP alot, it has Never been fired. The barrel and cylinder were spotless.
I think it's a reproduction of a 1860 colt. But not positive.
I'm going to shoot it next week and start with 15grs

Stykbow · Nov 15, 2024

Gotcha. I think there is a thread on here somewhere that discussed those Italian stamps pretty in-depth. I bet a search will turn it up for you. Hope you find what you’re looking for.

BPnut@.50cal · Nov 15, 2024

AA is made in 1975. 1851 model.

buckleymarka56 · Nov 15, 2024

[email protected] said:
AA is made in 1975. 1851 model.

Who would buy a gun and not shoot it? Anyway. It says Navy arms, in NJ. But they closed up when owner died.
It's not a pretty, checked with them
They said no, not ours.

rmark · Saturday at 12:33 PM

Not 1860 or 1851, round barrel and brass frame suggests it may be a replica of a confederate civil war revolver.

rmark · Saturday at 12:35 PM

Griswold and Gunnison replica maybe

TFoley · Saturday at 12:44 PM

buckleymarka56 said:
Who would buy a gun and not shoot it?

A LOT of people here, apparently.

TFoley · Saturday at 12:53 PM

Stykbow said:
Gotcha. I think there is a thread on here somewhere that discussed those Italian stamps pretty in-depth. I bet a search will turn it up for you. Hope you find what you’re looking for.

There is only ONE Proof House in Italy - the national proof house in Gardone Val Trompia, Brescia.

PN = Pulvero Nero = black powder

The letters are the date code - see above. In a square cartouche - the arm is for export. No cartouche - home market only.

The small coat of arms stamp are those of the city of Gardone with the star, symbolic of the Republicca d'Italia above it.

NO proof marks of any kind = gun was made as a kit in either Italy or Spain - the builder is responsible for 'proofing' it.

rmark · Saturday at 1:08 PM

Uberti made some of the early Navy Arms revolvers.
And I am guilty of having guns I haven’t shot. Such is life.

sportster73hp · Saturday at 3:59 PM

I have purchased many guns that appear unfired. Some people just like to look at them

buckleymarka56 · Saturday at 5:35 PM

sportster73hp said:
I have purchased many guns that appear unfired. Some people just like to look at them

when I got it, first thing I did was cool it. It was very stiff, but rotated and was on time.
I brought it home, took it apart and cleaned the mfg grease off the cylinder shaft, with a wire brush and hoppes. With the cylinder hole and shaft cleaned and oiled, it spins freely now.
I ran a small brush with a clean patch in each cylinder, and barrel. It was mfg clean.
It's never been fired.
But I'm going to shoot it next week
Peitta says it's not theirs

Major Dorman · Saturday at 9:25 PM

buckleymarka56 said:
I bought this pistol for 75 bucks.
It's never been fired.
Anyone know these markings
Amy help is appreciated

It’s not an original, pre-1865 muzzleloading firearm.

buckleymarka56 · Saturday at 9:37 PM

Major Dorman said:
It’s not an original, pre-1865 muzzleloading firearm.

I know it's a reproduction made in 1975. Trying to find out Who made it

Kansas Jake · Sunday at 11:40 AM

It might be Pietta. I also have a Navy Arms kit 1858 from the late 1970s that is only identified as being from Italy. The one identified as a Pietta has similar stamps on the frame.

buckleymarka56 · Sunday at 3:20 PM

Stykbow said:
I can tell you it’s an Italian reproduction based on the PN proof mark.

Here's more marks

TFoley · Sunday at 4:04 PM

buckleymarka56 said:
I brought it home, took it apart and cleaned the mfg grease off the cylinder shaft, with a wire brush and hoppes. With the cylinder hole and shaft cleaned and oiled, it spins freely now.

Don't use oil on the cylinder axis pin - used a good light grease. That's what you took off it in the fust place, right?

buckleymarka56 · Sunday at 4:15 PM

TFoley said:
Don't use oil on the cylinder axis pin - used a good light grease. That's what you took off it in the fust place, right?

Yes but I have grease I cam put on it instead.

buckleymarka56 · Sunday at 4:17 PM

buckleymarka56 said:
Yes but I have grease I cam put on it instead.

Yes I took it off because it was so stiff the cylinder would not rotate very easily. according to the markings on the gun it was made in 1975 and it has never been fired. It must have sat in a holster or some kind of protector all these years because it had no rust on it whatsoever

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