(11-22-2020, 06:47 AM)Finspiracy Wrote: I really don't know anything about these things. But Betsy is really beautiful!
She's a Griswold and Gunnison, Confederate revolver. See, after the war started, the Confederacy couldn't very well buy any more Yankee guns, for obvious reasons, and the Colt 1851 Navy Pistol or "Belt Pistol" was made by Yankees in Connecticut. So, several Southern manufacturers tooled up to produce weapons for the Confederacy.
Griswold and Gunnisons were made in Griswoldville Georgia from early in 1862 to November 1864 when an Ohio Cavalry unit burned Griswoldville to the ground during Sherman's march to the Sea.
They are a near direct clone of the 1851 Colt pistol, with a few minor exceptions. The frames on Colts were made of iron, but iron was in short supply in the Confederacy, so Griswolds were made with brass or bronze frames. Colts had an octagonal barrel, but Griswolds had a round barrel instead, as that was easier and quicker to machine out. The butt on Griswolds tilted a little more to the rear than the butts of Colts.
About 3600 of them were produced during the 2 years or so they were in production.
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Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
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