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LANGENHAHN, Sachsen
Heinrich Harder, Der Reichsrevolver und seine Varianten,
dated 1874
serial # 1888
88 on cylinder
serial # 1888 and unit stamp thr earlier unit invalidated
extremely rare original Saxon Army revolver model 1873,
matching serial # 1888 on back strap and grip, partial on cylinder, caliber .442
rim-fire (11mm), dated 1874, unit stamp C. 4. 4. (Garde du Corps 4. regiment, 4.
weapon, 5½" ribbed barrel with pinned front sight, rear sight on he bridge
over the cylinder, tips up after squeezing the
knurled buttons in front of the cylinder, under the barrel a big and rounded
bolt used as ejected, push safety behind hammer, sheeted trigger, single action
only, plain wooden grips. The browned finish good visible, but showing some use. With the
revolver come copies of the Gazette. # 1225
extremely rare original Saxon Army revolver model 1873,
matching serial # 1225 on back strap and grip, partial on cylinder, caliber .442
rim-fire (11mm), dated 1877, unit stamp GR.1.7. = Garde Regiment 1. regiment,
7.
weapon. 5½" ribbed barrel with pinned front sight, rear sight on he bridge
over the cylinder, tips up after squeezing the
knurled buttons in front of the cylinder, under the barrel a big and rounded
bolt used as ejected, push safety behind hammer, sheeted trigger, single action
only, plain wooden grips. The original finish good visible, but showing some use. With the
revolver come copies of the Gazette. $11,000.
Lander / Brucksch: Ordonanzpistolen der sächsischen
Kavallerie vom 16. Jahrhundert bis 1888,
Gazette Des
Armes 422 July 2010;
German states were obligated to adopt a common armament. But the kingdom of
Saxony decided to voluntarily introduce a new military handgun. Thus the
revolver Saxon Model 1873 became the first German revolver using a metal
cartridge. It will take six years to the introduction of the Reichsrevolver 1879. The contract for the supply of this command to
the Saxon government was signed on 15 March 1873 by Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig.
Although it has not yet definitive proof, it is almost certain
that the Saxon revolvers were manufactured by the firm Langenhan. Valentin Friedrich Langenhan opened his workshop in 1842 in Zella-Mehlis.
These were the first cartridge revolvers service issued in
Germany, originally as rim-fire, they were soon converted to central fire, and
when obsolete were sold off through the Haenel firm of Suhl in 1892 to the
dealer Pire in Antwerp, and were then refinished
and “S. Pire & Co, ANVERS” marked on the top rib with Belgian proofs on the right
side. While most of the 4,000 went to Belgium only very few survived in
unaltered condition. These two, originally
they came out of the Mauser Werke collection in 1945, and from Germany about
20 years ago, when a large collection was disposed of in Europe, some of which
went to Geoffrey Sturgess.
The rare revolver
$11,000.
