Did anyone ever make one of these with a steel frame? Can't find one anywhere. Our reenactment group had one of these out of the several "loaner" pistols we had. It was just like this one, brass .44 caliber. I carried it quite a bit myself, especially when we had to play as the "lobster backs"
(as we were a union outfit, only did that very rarely just to fill in on Confederate shortages)
Anyhooo....I was always very fond of that pistol, tried on several occasions to buy it from our company Sargent that it belonged to....which he always politely responded to with a smile and a firm "no way in hell son"
If anyone could help me out with a point in the right direction, I'd be grateful. Don't really even know what exact model it was (GRISWOLD & GUNNISON maybe? or a Leech & Rigdon? I know it's not a Dance Bros.) he always called it his scrounged Reb horse pistol. Think is was a Navy Arms. I know he bought it back in the early 80s
PS...the one pictured is on gun broker, it's not the one our unit had.