High Standard Derringer?
I'm sure I've asked this before, but don't remember.
About when did they make 22mag derringers at Spanish Fork, Utah?
Quality control issues?
Stainless/nickel?
About how many made there?
The one I'm asking about says High Standard on the frame, is a 2-shot 22mag, has a half circle trigger guard, and looks nothing like a North American Arms "revolver".
Looks like this one, but for the address.
http://www.GunBroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=355432418
My camera hasn't worked since my last fishing trip, but I'm trying to get hold of a friend with a phone that takes pix.
About when did they make 22mag derringers at Spanish Fork, Utah?
Quality control issues?
Stainless/nickel?
About how many made there?
The one I'm asking about says High Standard on the frame, is a 2-shot 22mag, has a half circle trigger guard, and looks nothing like a North American Arms "revolver".
Looks like this one, but for the address.
http://www.GunBroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=355432418
My camera hasn't worked since my last fishing trip, but I'm trying to get hold of a friend with a phone that takes pix.
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You may be thinking of a clone.
Early Hi Standard derringers were made in Hamden, CT; production was moved to Hartford, CT in 1968. Never made in UT.
Most derringers were blue, but some were plated. Never made in stainless steel.
The only QC problems were cosmetic defects; these had a V suffix added to the serial number.
No idea of production numbers.
Neal
EDIT: You may have a rare & valuable variation, as all known Hi-Standards derringers have the name & address on the barrel, not the frame. Photos of your gun are really needed to solve this mystery. It might help if you were to give us the serial number.0 -
505 as near as I can tell, High Standard was never in Spanish Forks, Utah, Conn as Neal says, and then Houston. Assets were owned by a couple of people between, but I don't believe any actually manufacturing took place in the years between Conn and Tex. Might you be thinking of NAA in Provo? 0 -
North American Arms used to make it's small revolvers in Spanish Fork, Utah.
http://www.{elsewhere}/search/displayitem.cfm?itemnum=8796347
That didn't work but there is a for sale listing for a NAA revolver made in Spanish Fork, Utah.0 -
As far as stainless is concerned, you might have been thinking about this one. It has a High Standard connection.
After High Standard went belly up in 1984. Some of their former employees felt there was a market, for a large caliber version of the High Standard .22 rimfire Derringer. They had the Bellmore-Johnson tool company in Hamden CT. Initiate very limited production of a stainless derringer chambered for the .38 Special and 9mm. It was a commercial flop. Few were made, and they are a pricy collectors item, nowadays.
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Bellmore Johnson served as a tool room for some High Standard prototypes and High Standard did have Bellmore Johnson make a singel .38 special derringer for evaluation. Some fool later had it rechambered to .357 magnum.
After High Standard closed and the assets were auctioned off, Bellmore Johnson briefly produced the model Rufe pictured. Still later American Derringer of Texas made versions of the .22 rimfire derringer and several center fire cartridges on the larger frame like Bellmore Johnsons's.
High Standard Houston did not get the rights for the derringer line and has not produced any derringers.
High Standard never had a presence in Utah.0 -
American Derringer Corp. in Waco, Texas also made this gun in both configurations. 0
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