DUTCH NEW ARMY REVOLVER 9.4mm

[Bill Grist]

Enjoy this Dutch 1873 Army Revolver in Caliber 9.4mm. I purchased this revolver for $50 in 1980 down on the coast of N.C., in 1983 I traded it for a Mauser 98k Rifle. It was made by J F J BAR of Delf, Holland they made 1300 pistols out of a contract for 13,028 pistols for the Dutch Army. It was made in 1873. Well I was at a recent N.C. Gun Show and there was the same exact pistol for sale. So I had to have it, it cost a heck of a lot more to get it back than what I had initially paid for it. This pistol is called the New model. Also a picture of the Dutch Revolver in the original 1980 collection....BILL

[Aldo]

That's a beautiful revolver ! Amazing how these artifacts keep resurfacing from collections.

[AZPhil]

Oh the Circle of Life of a firearm. Love It!
That is an interesting pistol
It looks like it has most of the bluing.
Awesome for that age.

Do you shoot it? Is ammo available?

Semper Fi
Phil

[CBH]

The Circle of Life, I often wonder what has become of items I've sold in the past.

LOL Phil stole my line, great minds think alike, or fools seldom differ.

[Bill Grist]

Oh the Circle of Life of a firearm. Love It!
That is an interesting pistol
It looks like it has most of the bluing.
Awesome for that age.

Do you shoot it? Is ammo available?

Semper Fi
Phil

Buffalo Arms makes empty cases for the weapon. I ordered 100 empties and a reloading friend of mine is making me some ammo, using black powder as in the original rounds. BILL

[lithgow]

Not so much a revolver as a boomerang....