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Electric Miner

40 Cal.
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Picked this up at my favorite LGS today. it is .31 caliber, no markings, in rough shape. I have two different opinions on it from shops that have sold one. One thinks it is late -1830's, patterned after an Ethan Allen. The other thinks it is circa 1850, and likely Belgian. In either case they sold for considerably more than the $20 I paid for it.


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Picked this up at my favorite LGS today. it is .31 caliber, no markings, in rough shape. I have two different opinions on it from shops that have sold one. One thinks it is late -1830's, patterned after an Ethan Allen. The other thinks it is circa 1850, and likely Belgian. In either case they sold for considerably more than the $20 I paid for it.


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Nice little pistol, I have owned one nearly identical to yours. Shot it several times and it was a fun little blaster. It was a larger caliber than yours, a screw barrel with a small powder chamber, around 10 grains capacity and a .395 round ball fit the breech chamber iirc. Sadly, I let it (and a number of others) go a few years ago due to financial concerns at the time. No Belgian proofs on mine, the only marking was a number on the barrel and breech. Probably intended to keep them matched up during assembly. I suspected it was either a domestic knock off of an Allen or one they made for a marketer or dealer to sell without their own name on it since there were no foreign proof marks
 
I'm pretty sure it is an American-made knock off of an Allen & Thurber. Someone suggested it is an Allen & Thurber made without markings so it could be sold by a different retailer, but I don't think the quality is good enough.
 
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