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If memory serves ASM started the show by making their Walkers from 1962. Uberti followed towards the end of the 1960s. Then there was Palmetto which just might be Walkers from Uberti finished by Palmetto from sometime in the 1970s. The Walkers were also available as F-series in the 2nd Gen Colts...

Hope this info helps: Go to Centaure & FROCS website www.1960nma.org # Check Book of Centaures # Scroll down to chapter 4.7 Gunsmithing # Scroll down to sub-chapter 4.7.2.9 Nipples The info you need is under Step 4. Best, Long Johns Wolf

Thanks for these informative pics, Andrewmtnman, Would you let me have the serial number of your Centaure RNMA 2nd var./1st sub-var., please. I would like to add the data to the Centaure website www.1960nma.org. Long Johns Wolf

Yes, they were, SA. Evidence by the harder Belgian steel used in their making. Check www.1960nam.org. Between fall of 1959 and early summer of 1973 a total of ca. 16,000 units was produced over 5 basic models but with > 50 sub-variations. All the Centaure conversions I am aware of were made...

Looks like a conversion to me. Long Johns Wolf

Sorry Mike, what is a witness mark? I am very much aware of Belgians with loose arbors and other maladies acquired during their five, six or more decades of use. Which should not be surprising because the last specimens were assembled in early summer of 1973. Long Johns Wolf

My congrats, Edge, on your acquisition. Interesting comment, 45D: I have checked - disassembled & reassembled - probably 100 or more of these Belgian Centaures during the last 20 years. None, repeat none had a short arbor. Let me have the serial number of the one you found, please, and I will...

I don't wish to take over this thread but yes, the grip angle is one of the key historical issues of the G&Gs. Without this manipulation the barrel would be positioned parallel to a table or else when the butt is firmly placed on such a flat surface. With thist 5 to 10 ° adjustment of the...

Griswold & Gunnison new grip angle ... DIY. Long Johns Wolf

Andrewmtnman & campfire: If you wish to learn more about the FROCS-FRiends Of the Centaure Society or consider joining this International Non-Profit special interest visit the Centaure & FROCS website www.1960nma.org and send me an email at [email protected]. Long Johns Wolf

No, not Andeas Baumkircher. It is Karl Nedbal of .45 ACP Luger pistol fame. Long Johns Wolf

A master gunsmith from Austria did, see pics. This beast was on exhibit at the Kassel/Germany Gunshow in 2019. Long Johns Wolf

I suggest refelctions of the lights above in the display box. Long Johns Wolf

USPFA/USFA was a firearms maker in Hartford, CT between 1992 and 2011. In addition to their core business of high end Colt 1873 SAA replicas they marketed Colt pattern percussion revolvers. Complete percussion revolvers were received "in the white" w/o markings from both Armi san Marco...

I am researching the makers of the .44 cal. hand cannons. It is my understanding that Armi san Marco was the first industrial maker starting in 1960, after Colt had production of the military and civilian models in 1847 at the Whitneyville factory. I saw pictures of sales ads of Palmetto made...

For your entertainment Robert "Gus McCrae" Duvall's Walker carried in LD. Photographed at the LD exhibition of the TX University of San Marcos. I hope the pic is legal here?! Long Johns Wolf

Sorry, had never to replace one. A smith should be able to make one from scratch or modify an existing one from an Italian 1860 ... Long Johns Wolf

C.O.M.: Contrini Officine Meccaniche di Contrini Givanni, Gardone ... that is another gone maker from Gardone, around the corner from Uberti. Yes, I fired the Dance Navy. No issues with caps coming off from recoil or such. Long Johns Wolf

A pair of Uberti Colt 1851 Navies was transformed into 1862 J.H. Dance & Brothers Navies. Barrel/loading lever groups and cylinders were from two C.O.M. GGs. Since the dia of the C.O.M. cylinders differs from the Uberti specs new arbors had to be made and fitted by the smith. Only after...

Two Uberti Colt 1851 Navies from the 1970s "transformed" into 1862 Leech & Rigdons fitted with early production lever latch (ball type latch).