It is not uncommon for relic diggers to find 7mm, 9mm as well as the more common 12mm pinfire cartridges in known Civil War campsites. Many men took privately owned, "civilian" pattern pin fire revolvers into the field. However, the use of pin fire revolvers by the North and South was not limited to the 12mm military guns. Period documentation indicates that pinfire revolvers saw significant use by Confederate soldiers as, and many deep south arsenals maintained inventories pin fire cartridges and even offered the pistols for sale to officers.
Other importers who provided pinfire revolvers to the US government included Herman Boker, Schuyler, Hartley & Graham, George Raphael (who provided the Raphael revolvers to the US), Alexis Godillot of Paris (who provided the Perrin revolvers to the US) and even Tiffany & Company. The Ordnance Department did not appear to differentiate between the French and Belgian made versions, much like they often lumped French and Belgian made muskets together without any distinction at all. However, extant examples with American Civil War provenance indicate that many Belgian licensed copies were also imported during the war. Most of Schuyler's purchases appear to have been made directly from Lefaucheux in Paris. The primary importer of M-1854 revolvers was George Schuyler who purchased 10,000 Lefaucheux revolvers for the US government. Although US government purchases only record about 13,000 M-1858 Lefaucheux patent pin fire revolvers as being officially purchased (along with over 2.2 million cartridges), surviving examples and regimental records indicate that far more than that were imported. Thousands of these pinfire revolvers were imported for use by US troops, and at least a few hundred saw service with Confederate troops as well. In many ways the large bore martial pinfire revolver, based upon the patents of Casimir and Eugene Lefaucheux was one of the most modern and advanced military handguns to see use on the battlefield during the American Civil War. This model revolver, as well as the later M1858 Navy, were imported in large numbers by both the North and South during the American Civil war. Most military models were produced only with single-action, whereas civilian models were made primarily with double action. The revolver was sold to the civilian market as well. Etienne (MAS), Liège, Belgium, or local producers under license. Most were produced either at the state arsenal in St. The pistol was the first metallic-cartridge revolver adopted by a national government. The Model 1854 Lefaucheux pinfire revolver was a large frame single action variant of this popular French pinfire system. Overall this is a nice example of a Belgian Lefaucheux model 1854 revolver with the American Civil War connection and will likely sell soon.Original Item: Only One Available. The cylinder does sometimes need a little help indexing as the groves in the back of the cylinder are pretty worn. The hammer spring works well and fully cocks and the trigger releases it as it should. It is missing the extractor rod as many of these are but does have the loading gate. The gun has clearly been heavily used and has some condition issues.
LEFAUCHEUX INV BREVETE which indicates that Lefaucheux was the inventor and patent holder that licensing was paid to to make this. This gun has Belgian proof marks and inspection marks and has the inscription of E.
Belgian lefaucheux revolver 1854 serial number#
The specimen for sale here is serial number 39,366 which fits right within this range that was issued to the 9th Missouri State Militia Cavalry Regiment. I have the listing of all of them, but we will list a few specific ones issued in 1863 to CO B 9TH MO STATE MILITIA CAV. Much of this research has been done over the past few decades by Frank Mallory and the Springfield Research Service. There are only 167 of these 13,263 revolvers that specifically have their serial number recorded in the national archives in any documentation that has been found so far. There is also an unknown amount of pinfire revolvers that the Confederate Army imported. The other 3,263 were gathered from various gun dealers and suppliers in the United States and Europe. Lefaucheux was also supplying Italy a large order at the same time as well as other customers. 10,000 of these were a direct order from Eugène Lefaucheux’s company by the Army’s purchasing agent, Col. In 18 the United States Army imported a recorded 13,263 Lefaucheux model 1854 pinfire revolvers.
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