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Tucker, Sherrard & Company

Name Street Town State From To
Tucker, Sherrard & Company   Lancaster Texas 1862 1862


Patent Date Remarks
     


Contract for
State of Texas, April 2, 1862 3000 revolvers


Product
J.H. Sherrard was engaged in Tucker, Sherrard & Company, Sherrard, Tailor & Co and Clark, Sherrard & Co.

By the September 1862, Labon Tucker had withdrawn from the company and it became Taylor, Sherrard & Co. It seems that the first company made no revolvers and only a few were completed by the second. A large amount of unfinished parts were left over from the operations of these two companies and these parts were taken over by Clark, Sherrard & Co. This last company managed to finish about 400 revolvers after the Civil War.

.44 caliber percussion revolver DRAGOON, 7 ¾ " round barrel, 6-shot cylinder. Approximately 400 produced
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.44 caliber percussion, number 81 with low rise hammer, captured at Gettysburg. One cylinder is blown out. There are 5 known revolvers that have a low rise hammer all of them are in the 50 serial number. This revolver with number 81 ist the only one with low rise hammer an a higher serial number.
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cylinder left, right and number on ramrod
low rise hammer
some details
cylinder blown out left side