Warner & Wesson

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Warner & Wesson   Hartford Connecticut 1860s  


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U.S. Civil War Carbines.

.50 caliber r.f., 20" round barrel. The first 200 were without any marking or serial number. It is supposed that only 1500 had been made in 1864.

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.40 caliber percussion, 6" barrel marked LEAVITT's PATENT / MANd BY WARNER & WESSON HARd, Ct and WESSON'S & LEAVITT'S PATENT. So marked revolvers were completed by Thomas Warner after E. Wesson's dead in 1859. Less than an dozend had been made. The Massachusetts Arms Co. manufactured a similair but dragoon size revolver.