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Liberty .22

1973 torino
Hi, and thank you ahead of time. I need information about a small 5.5 inch long .22 caliber "Liberty" twenty two. It's a seven shot. No trigger guard, Wooden grips, (even though, I beleive they are home made replacements). About a 2" barrel.The cylinder does NOT swing out, and the shells have to be loaded "singly" and taken out the same way. On the left side of the frame, between the cylinder and the grip, there's a large ( apprx. 3/4" ) "bolt/screw"??) that needs to be punched out from the other side; in order to be taken out. It looks very old due to the wormanship. Thank you agasin.
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  • Fatstrat
    My guess w/o seeing a pic is that it's the same as the RG Model 10 in .22 short. The epitomy of the classic "Saturday Nite Special". Made in Germany, and imported/sold in the U.S. prior to 1968. Very poor quality w/very low value. In good shootable condition, maybe $50.00
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  • hrf
    Sounds like this 1870s "spur trigger" type, maker unknown:

    http://www.soldusa.com/detail.asp?id=5880&bigpic=0#img
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  • b.goforth
    the "liberty" brand name single action spur trigger revolver was manufactured by hood firearms, norwich pistol co., o.a. smith and shattuck. and after the turn of the century (1900) by w.h. bliss for sears and others. in other works a lot of people made revolvers marked with the liberty name. the manufacture of this type of revolver is generally accepted as being over with the advent of the double action mechanism. this is not the case a 1907 iver johnson sporting goods co. of boston show a single action spur trigger revolver marked "liberty". of all the brand names these revolver were sold under the name liberty seem to have out lived them all. the one shown in the picture that hrf posted is one made by w.h. bliss. the round side plate is one of the features of his revolvers it first appeared on patent number 202627 dated april 23, 1878. this patent date appears on a lot of the liberty marked revolvers.

    the most important thing to remember is this revolver was manufactured for black powder cartridge pressures only. the continued use of these revolver with smokeless cartriges is what gave them the bad reputation of blowing up in your hand when fired.
    bill
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