Eli Whitney, New Haven, CT, 1826 - 1888

Whitney hooded cylinder pocket revolver, 
no visible serial #, cal. .28 percussion,
7½" octagonal barrel with fixed sight and inscription,
hand-revolved after pushing the button on butt-strap,
6-shoot etched cylinder,
German silver hood with PATENT and APPLIED FOR,
excellent condition.
Flayderman's # 5J-086: circa 200 made, this with the longer barrel not mentioned.     sold/wanted

Whitney Beals' pocket revolver "walking beam", serial # on strap and on both grips 224, cal. .31 percussion, 3" octagonal barrel with fixed sight and over the bridge inscribed, 7-shot cylinder. While the barrel shows good bluing, the rest changed to grayish, good varnished grips. Very good condition.
Flayderman's # 5J-091    $3,000.

Whitney two trigger pocket revolver

cal. .32 percussion, 6" octagonal barrel with fixed sight and maker's name. The brass frame shows PATENT APPLIED FOR with some blue finish remaining, the other iron parts are grayish, the varnished grips show acceptable wear. The front trigger is to loosen the cylinder and it can be hand-revolved.
Fine condition and in good working order.
Flayderman's # 5J-087    $2,850.

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