I.D question

goste · September 13, 2012, 10:45 PM

Hi all,
I swapped for a 4 screw 1860 replica, about 25 years ago, and had a few questions.

I THINK, it's an ASM. It has a date code of AD in a box on the right side. Also found is a DGG in a circle, on the bottom of the barrel by the trigger guard.. The serial # is SB166. I belive it to be made in about 1978, as the barrel is inscribed " Sam Bass centennial 1878-1978", also Round Rock Texas. Does any of this sound correct? It's unfired, and looks new.

Can anyone tell me what it may be worth ballpark? I don't shoot Black powder any more, and am thinking about selling off the 7 or 8 pistols I've collected over the years...Many thanks Guys.....

Caspar

mykeal · September 13, 2012, 11:34 PM

The AD in a box is the proof date code for 1978, so you are correct about the manufacture date. The circled DGG is the manufacturer's mark for Armi San Paolo, now Euroarms (the letters stand for the founders, Doninelli, Grassi and Gazzola).

Unfired, value is about $250.

Fingers McGee · September 13, 2012, 11:37 PM

What Mykeal said +1

Doc Hoy · September 14, 2012, 07:47 AM

I have seen two of these pistols at shows for up to 350.00 but they were still sitting there at the end of the show.

Everything I have from ASP/Euroarms is pretty derned good quality.

Hawg Haggen · September 14, 2012, 07:00 PM

ASP is good, it's ASM you need to be leery of.

September 13, 2012, 10:45 PM	#1
goste Member Join Date: December 14, 2004 Posts: 61	I.D question Hi all, I swapped for a 4 screw 1860 replica, about 25 years ago, and had a few questions. I THINK, it's an ASM. It has a date code of AD in a box on the right side. Also found is a DGG in a circle, on the bottom of the barrel by the trigger guard.. The serial # is SB166. I belive it to be made in about 1978, as the barrel is inscribed " Sam Bass centennial 1878-1978", also Round Rock Texas. Does any of this sound correct? It's unfired, and looks new. Can anyone tell me what it may be worth ballpark? I don't shoot Black powder any more, and am thinking about selling off the 7 or 8 pistols I've collected over the years...Many thanks Guys..... Caspar

September 13, 2012, 11:37 PM	#3
Fingers McGee Senior Member Join Date: March 20, 2008 Location: Missouri Posts: 1,714	What Mykeal said +1 __________________ Fingers (Show Me MO smoke) McGee - AKA Man of Many Colts - Alter ego of Diabolical Ken; SASS Regulator 28564-L-TG; Rangemaster and stage writer extraordinaire; Frontiersman, Pistoleer, NRA Endowment Life, NMLRA, SAF, CCRKBA, STORM 327, SV115; Charter member, Central Ozarks Western Shooters Cynic: A blackguard whose faulty vision see things as they are, not as they should be. Ambrose Bierce

September 14, 2012, 07:47 AM	#4
Doc Hoy Senior Member Join Date: October 24, 2008 Location: Chesapeake, VA Posts: 3,339	Fingers + 1, Mykeal + 2 I have seen two of these pistols at shows for up to 350.00 but they were still sitting there at the end of the show. Everything I have from ASP/Euroarms is pretty derned good quality. __________________ Doc My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. Thomas Jefferson

September 14, 2012, 07:00 PM	#5
Hawg Haggen Senior Member Join Date: September 8, 2007 Location: Mississippi Posts: 10,225	ASP is good, it's ASM you need to be leery of. __________________ http://blackpowdertimes.com/index.php

September 13, 2012, 11:34 PM	#2
mykeal Senior Member Join Date: October 8, 2006 Location: Northern Michigan Posts: 2,631	The AD in a box is the proof date code for 1978, so you are correct about the manufacture date. The circled DGG is the manufacturer's mark for Armi San Paolo, now Euroarms (the letters stand for the founders, Doninelli, Grassi and Gazzola). Unfired, value is about $250.