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Laurent, I'm afraid that your gun is a fake. The markings on the barrel are not the right ones which should read on 3 lines and in smaller letters :
PATENTED SEPT. 14,1858
E.REMINGTON & SONS, ILION, NEW YORK, U.S.A.
NEW MODEL
Beside that, the serial numbers are not stamped at the right places.
I am not sure I would call your revolver a fake. It is not an original Remington built in the 1860’s during the American Civil War. It seems to be a replica probably manufactured in the mid to late 1900’s for Black Powder Shooters who did not want to spend high dollars to shoot an original antique. Replicas are still made today by Pietta and Uberti.
billt wrote: Mon Sep 03, 2018 8:18 am
I am not sure I would call your revolver a fake. It is not an original Remington built in the 1860’s during the American Civil War. It seems to be a replica probably manufactured in the mid to late 1900’s for Black Powder Shooters who did not want to spend high dollars to shoot an original antique. Replicas are still made today by Pietta and Uberti.
Bill
I wrote that Laurent's revolver was a fake simply because the title of his thread was "Original 1863 Remington New Model Army". But of course, I have a good knowledge or modern blackpowder replicas which started being produced in 1959.
And it's a fake also because the Italian proofmarks, the warning "black powder only" and other markings have apparently been erased to make believe it was an original.
The Remington New Model Army replicas have been produced mainly in Italy, and few of them in Spain. So, no doubt for me, your gun is one of these replicas that someone who had never seen an original tried to make it look like one.
Yes Laurent, the French "Defense Nationale" bought Remington revolvers during the war of 1870 against Prussia, and I have one of these in my collection. They were "put in the white" (all the blue removed) but the original markings and serial numbers were respected.
But your gun is definitely not one of these because as I wrote before, the markings on the barrel are totally fanciful (look again at the photo in my previous post to see what the real markings were), and the "serial numbers" (there should only be one) are totally misplaced.
So, I insist on saying that it is a modern replica made post 1960 and sorry to say, but for my part, the guy who sold you the gun didn't tell the truth about his grandfather having this revolver.
