Original U.S. Civil War Era Silver Mounted "Philadelphia Deringer" Style Pocket Percussion Pistol - circa 1860 Category_Receiver Top Cover Christopher Collins Ltd

Christopher Collins Ltd

and no major tears or other damage

62 mm) semi-automatic carbine that was a standard firearm for the U

for the export market to France and the United States

There is also a Political Leader's Achselschnur gold dress aiguillette attached to the jacket buttons and hung over the shoulder

Original U.S. Civil War Era Silver Mounted "Philadelphia Deringer" Style Pocket Percussion Pistol - circa 1860 Category_Receiver Top Cover Christopher Collins LtdOriginal Items. Only One Available. It was a small percussion concealable pistol made by "DERINGER" that John Wilkes Boothe used to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theater in 1865. By this action alone the name Deringer entered national mind and language of the United States being linked to "an Assassin's weapon". Now spelled with two consecutive "R"s, the term DERRINGER is part of everyday life. So famous did Henry Deringer become