Box Lock

[Welchman]

Is anyone aware of any company that makes screwin barrel pistol similar (style and time period) to the one at the following web site. It doesn't have to be so ornate.
Thanks,
Welchman
[url] http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bi....com/&sPath=2006-09/13/7290656-192-1.jpg[/url]

 

[wallgunner]

TRS makes a boxlock kit. It might be a little later than the one in the link. I've never seen one built though. As usual, you might have a long wait from TRS. I like to build the oddball gun, and boxlocks are not the most common reproduced pistol. I have good luck with TRS when you order the odd gun. They usually have the parts I want in stock. The Boxlock might fall in that catergory. Good luck!

 

[Don]

Dixie Gun works carries the Lafayette which is very similar. Deer Creek products also carries it.

Don

 

[WRussell]

If you watch the auction & antique gun dealer sites, you can get an antique one for around $400. Expect to make repairs. They were the "mass produced" personal protection gun for everyman for a couple of decades, (and for many more years in the percussion era) so there are a lot of them out there. There was an auction a few years ago with several of them at reasonable estimates, and I couldn't make it to the auction, so I put in absentee bids on the low side for three, hoping I'd be lucky enough to get one, but I got all three. Ouch. Won't do that again.

 

[John Vaccaro]

On the link they describe the barrel and action as being german silver. German Silver is much later than the 1776 date that the attrubute the gun to. Could it be brass or bronze? The color looks like brass. John

 

[John Vaccaro]

I didn't answer you question. I have seen some very nice sets of the Thomas Jefferson commerative boxlock screwbarrel pistols for sale on Gun Brokers etc. As I recall the price was in the $1500 range for the cased set. John

 

[Story]

.52 flint screw-barrel, $207 US[url] http://www.loyalistarms.freeservers.com/pocketpistolmid18c.html[/url]

 

[WRussell]

Actually German silver was introduced in Europe in the 1770's and became widely available pretty quickly. As "Paktong" it was available as an import from China for some time before the 1770s.