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Moore Teat Fire revolver - antikke våpen RESERVERT
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9 500 kr
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Jeg har for salg en usedvanlig fin Moore revolver med massevis av original finish/forsølving, flotte skjefter med original lakk, bra adresse, supertight mekanisk. En skikkelig fin revolver som absolutt er verdt å samle på og man finner de vanligvis ikke i så fin stand. Såkalt "invesringskvalitet"!
Kun. kr. 9500,- RESERVERT
"Teat-fire" most likely refers to the Moore Teat-fire cartridge, a type of ammunition used in a .32 caliber revolver during the 19th century. This cartridge had a unique design where a small "teat" or nipple at the rear, containing the primer, protruded through a small hole in the cylinder to be struck by the hammer and fire the round.
Fra: https://www.antiquearmsinc.com/moore-revolver-antique.htm
Moore Pocket Revolver in Caliber .32 Teat-fire. There were about 30,000 of these produced under the Moore and National Arms Co names from 1864 to 1870.
Moore used a dark shellac on their walnut grips probably in an effort to simulate their main competitor, S&W's more exotic dark rosewood. This was one of the smallest .32 caliber pocket revolvers you could buy as it was considerably smaller than the S&W No. 2. Interestingly enough, the year after production began for the Moore Teat-Fire, S&W introduced a scaled down version of the No. 2 in 1865 called the 1 1/2. A unique gun with a rather unusual early production feature.
Horace Smith and Daniel Wesson must have been a little upset when this little cartridge revolver hit the market back in 1864. After all, holding the Rollin White patent since 1857 and having a pack of Pit Bulls for a legal team to go after Patent Infringers; this left Smith & Wesson with a virtual lock on the cartridge revolver market. Their No. 1 and No. 2 rimfire revolvers were highly successful selling several hundred thousand units.
However, with thousands of Union Soldiers and Civilians alike purchasing these small cartridge revolvers for personal protection and back-up weapons, the market must have seemed too lucrative to ward off a couple of gentlemen by the name of Daniel Moore and David Williamson. It wasn't easy at first though....at first Moore produced a medium size belt revolver in .32 rimfire and ran head-on into a patent infringement lawsuit by S&W's lawyers. I'm sure S&W must have won their case and I suspect part of the damages were settled in a quantity of Moore Single Action Revolvers...as occasionally these will even turn up with S&W barrel markings.
Well, if first you don't succeed, keep on trying......so for their next attempt the pair came up with a new unique design this time designed to completely by-pass S&W's patent altogether! They called it the .32 Caliber Teat-fire cartridge....and yes, this time around, they even went out and got their own patent! Ha!!!!! they must have said to the growls of Daniel and Horace but there was nothing they could do this time! Instead of a traditional rimfire cartridge loaded from the back of a cylinder or chamber, the teat-fire cartridge was loaded from the front of the cylinder with the end tapering off to a small teat exposed through a small hole at the back of the chamber. Rather than the hammer striking forward, the hammer struck downwards through a small hole to strike the teat and ignite the round in the chamber. Not the easiest or most efficient idea and it certainly wasn't a better mousetrap than the simpler S&W rimfire cartridge but from a legal standpoint it was absolutely BRILLIANT! It did the trick well in circum-navigating around S&W's Rollin White patent and the Moore revolver became some of S&W's fiercest competition.
Her er en ganske slitt, som ligger for salg i USA for USD 900,-
https://griffinhowe.com/product/moore-teat-fire-32-18105/
og en fra England:
https://www.gunstar.co.uk/mint-bore-1864-1870-american-civil-war-era-30-calibre-moore-/Pistol-Hand-Guns/1805080
Det har blitt vanskeligere å importere antikke våpen til Norge i og med at våpenforskriften krever forhåndstillatelse fra Politiet. Dette utelukker mer eller mindre handel på auksjoner osv. i utlandet. Det blir stadig vanskeligere (og dyrere) for oss som samler..
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