Hopkins & Allen Blue jacket #2 32 cal.

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Revolver was passed down to me from my father. Trying to find date of manufacture, any ideas. Supposedly used in the Riel rebellion.
Thanks

 

[smellie]

Blue Jacket Number 2 was a RIMFIRE and, being old enough, is a legal Antique.

I do not know when they entered production (I am told 1879 but have no proof) but they are certainly old enough to have been used back then.

The LATEST reference I can find to that model is 1898..... in a book printed in 1897.

They do not seem to command a heck of a lot of money (around $350 in average condition) but they are one of the nicer of the 19th-Century "house" pistols.

A GREAT little inheritance!