grips

[pohill]

I also posted this on THR.
I got these grips. I was told they were either bone or ivory. They are cold on my face, they are heavy, a red hot pin will not penetrate the surface (it broke). One has a purple stain.
Any ideas on what they are?

[Chestnut Forge]

They look like ivory to me.

[Pahoo]

To me, the color, size and grain, looks right for Ivory. Not only that, but they look old and in keeping with the access to Ivory back when many things were made of Ivory .....

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[Beagle333]

Looks like ivory here too. I haven't seen a bazillion pieces of it, but that looks like the stuff I have seen.

[pohill]

I didn't think they were ivory until I researched and did some tests. Now I think they are.
Now I gotta figure out what kind of gun they go on. They're about 3 1/2" long.

[PetahW]

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Yep, Ivory - bone has more visible pores.


They definitely look like they fit a single-action revolver - I'm trying to remember where I've seen a flat-sided gripframe with that large circular opening around/below the gripscrew hole (aka: a clue )


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[pohill]

This is the closest I've found. I wish I had a gun they'd fit.
http://www.gunauction.com/Search/Dis...temNum=9487523

[swathdiver]

I cannot see the top but they have the shape of the Remington percussion revolvers.

[pohill]

I tried them on a Remington-Beals .36, Whitney .36, Remington New Model .44, Spiller & Burr repro...close but not a fit on any.

[swathdiver]

Remington also had two smaller framed guns between the Navy and Pocket, the New Model Belt and New Model Police, could be those too. Ruger also had a small revolver, the Bearcat maybe, with a similar grip shape but those guns are about 50-60 years old and the grips look much older to me.

[savit260]

If those are the same grips that were in another thread somewhere, they likely belong on a Colt New Service.

The grain on the bottom of the grips don't really look like ivory to me, but it's tough to say from a pic on the internet. That could just be the pic though. Ivory was a popular upgrade back in the day.

[pohill]

I've posted the pics on 3 forums. Some replies say they're positively ivory, a few said bone, several said there's no way to ID them from those pics. It is tough IDing them from pics. I also think they're from a Colt Service, Special, Detective, etc - along those lines. I'm going to bring them to a local store this weekend that has quite a few old Colts.

[Captchee]

They sure look like ivory . I wonder could they be walrus tusk vs. elephant ?
i remeber reading some time ago something about the CMP puting walrus ivory on their pistols

[savit260]

I'm about 99% sure they go on a double action Colt. The pic I saw on another forum looked far too big to fit a D frame (detective special, cobra, diamondback etc.) Could be an I/E frame (Python , Official Police, Officers Model etc.) but more likely the large frame New Service.

As to Elephant Ivory, I wouldn't want to say for certain unless they were in my hand. The grain really isn't visible enough IMO , in the pic to say for certain. The grain I can see, seems to be running in the opposite direction that I would expect to see on elephant ivory grips. It seems pretty clear it's some kind of natural material though. Bone, some other kind of ivory etc.

[savit260]

The pic I'm referring to was with the grips next to a Speed Six, and they were clearly WAY too big for that size frame , which is fairly close to the I/E frame Colts. That's why I'd say New Service (large frame) Colt.

[pohill]

I checked out two Colts, an Official Police and a Positive Police. I didn't remove the grips on the store's revolvers but mine matched up to those on the Official Police.
Good call, savit260.

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=...lice&FORM=IGRE