Notes from the underground 2022

Top: Sterling .38 caliber rimfire revolver, circa. 1870's-1890's Bottom: Forehand & Wadsworth Russian model .32 caliber rimfire revolver, circa. 1880's-1890's  Presently,  my antique pistol restoration projects are slow going, as I gradually research to find info about missing parts and gunsmithing techniques. Every stage is a new challenge, and eventually I hope to not only transform & increase the values of  these two antique revolvers, but I will also have gained some valuable  pistolsmithing experience which will help with future restoration projects.

 

I came across a pair of these early 20th century toy cap guns while wasting a bit of time on eBay a couple of years ago. "L&M"  and "Made in Canada" were the only markings on the cap guns that obviously were modeled after the popular "top break" revolvers mostly made by Smith & Wesson, Iver Johnson, Hopkins & Allen and Forehand & Wadsworth  from the 1870's to the early 20th century.   In the present day, "Made in Canada" is quite rare when it comes to consumer goods, and seeing those words stamped, or engraved proudly into these toy cap guns made me smile, and then buy the pair of relics from another  time, when "Made in Canada" wasn't an endangered species.

 

 

Firearms Advertising of the 19th century:

  I am laying on my couch, recovering after working a crappy, back breaking  nightshift, sorting &  loading packages on delivery trucks, and now  watching videos of the Canadian Federal Government's telling one lie after another, as they try  to fanatically cling to the power that  the global pandemic gave them during the past two years...