CONFEDERATE LEMAT SECOND MODEL REVOLVER.

SN 1448. 42 Cal./18 Bore. This is an orig example of the standard production LeMat grape-shot revolver. Standard production guns, often called 2nd Models, feature improvements made by LeMat that worked the best after lots of service in the field by Confederates in the field reporting problems in the early Civil War years, including Colt style ratchet system to turn cyl. The revolver has the distinctive LeMat 9-shot cyl. 42 caliber rifled bbl with smooth bore ‘grape-shot’ 18 ga bbl for firing buckshot. The top bbl flat is marked “Col. LeMat Bte s.g.d.g. Paris” which is the standard addressing on LeMat standard production guns. In Wiley Sword’s text Firepower From Abroad he notes that probably only the first 1450 LeMats made it to the Confederacy in time for the Gettysburg Campaign. If that is the case this would have been one of the last guns to make it for the major 1863 and 1864 Campaigns of the Civil War. LeMat revolvers were prized by their Confederate owners (and the Yankee capturers too). Many notable Confederate Generals and Officers were known to have carried these unique weapons. In Charles Frazier’s 1997 National Book Awards winning Cold Mountain the book’s hero Inman proudly owned a pair of LeMat revolvers showing how well known this particular revolver is among modern culture. PROVENANCE: Greene Museum of Southern History. CONDITION: Gun overall is gray/brown, cleaned and pitted. Bbl address and SNs are all discernible. Bbl address is quite discernible as can be seen in photos. Loading assembly is unserialized and is a well made copy with similar color and patina to balance of gun. Ears of hammer are broken and pivoting shotgun hammer is not orig nor is its pivot screw. Dove-tailed front sight is an old brass replacement with steel pin. Stocks are sound, solid, well fit with fairly crisp checkering with minor small dings, dents and chipping to left stock at interface with frame. Mechanically gun functions with crisp rifling in bore. 4-54252 JS213 (6,000-9,000) – Lot 3274

Auction: Firearms - Fall 2014

Please Note: All prices include the hammer price plus the buyer’s premium, which is paid by the buyer as part of the purchase price. The prices noted here after the auction are considered unofficial and do not become official until after the 46th day.

Image	Lot	Price	Description
	3274	$8,050.00	CONFEDERATE LEMAT SECOND MODEL REVOLVER. SN 1448. 42 Cal./18 Bore. This is an orig example of the standard production LeMat grape-shot revolver. Standard production guns, often called 2nd Models, feature improvements made by LeMat that worked the best after lots of service in the field by Confederates in the field reporting problems in the early Civil War years, including Colt style ratchet system to turn cyl. The revolver has the distinctive LeMat 9-shot cyl. 42 caliber rifled bbl with smooth bore ‘grape-shot’ 18 ga bbl for firing buckshot. The top bbl flat is marked “Col. LeMat Bte s.g.d.g. Paris” which is the standard addressing on LeMat standard production guns. In Wiley Sword’s text Firepower From Abroad he notes that probably only the first 1450 LeMats made it to the Confederacy in time for the Gettysburg Campaign. If that is the case this would have been one of the last guns to make it for the major 1863 and 1864 Campaigns of the Civil War. LeMat revolvers were prized by their Confederate owners (and the Yankee capturers too). Many notable Confederate Generals and Officers were known to have carried these unique weapons. In Charles Frazier’s 1997 National Book Awards winning Cold Mountain the book’s hero Inman proudly owned a pair of LeMat revolvers showing how well known this particular revolver is among modern culture. PROVENANCE: Greene Museum of Southern History. CONDITION: Gun overall is gray/brown, cleaned and pitted. Bbl address and SNs are all discernible. Bbl address is quite discernible as can be seen in photos. Loading assembly is unserialized and is a well made copy with similar color and patina to balance of gun. Ears of hammer are broken and pivoting shotgun hammer is not orig nor is its pivot screw. Dove-tailed front sight is an old brass replacement with steel pin. Stocks are sound, solid, well fit with fairly crisp checkering with minor small dings, dents and chipping to left stock at interface with frame. Mechanically gun functions with crisp rifling in bore. 4-54252 JS213 (6,000-9,000) – Lot 3274 Auction: Firearms - Fall 2014 Please Note: All prices include the hammer price plus the buyer’s premium, which is paid by the buyer as part of the purchase price. The prices noted here after the auction are considered unofficial and do not become official until after the 46th day.

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CONFEDERATE LEMAT SECOND MODEL REVOLVER.