Centennial 1860

[emishi]

What's the going value of a Centennial 1860 Army Blue Book wise?  Serial # for the one I'm looking at is C715 I believe and the revolver is in excellent shape (photo-wise), though it is showing some drag marks around the cylinder.

[RollingThunder]

Centennial being the manufacturer?

[drjldavis]

The Centennial 1860 Army revolvers were manufactured by Centaure of Belgium.  They have become extremely collectable.  The "C" prefix in the serial number indicates a Civilian Model.  Should have silver plated trigger guard and back strap.  The last ones I have seen for sale have brought over $500.  Check out Wolf's web site about these revolvers.  He has done extensive research on these revolvers in both the U.S. market and the European market.

http://www.1960nma.org/

[emishi]

It's a Belgium Centaure civilian model 1860 army revolver.

[Dutchman Dick]

Hope you have better luck with yours than I did with the one I used to have! On mine, the frame cracked from where the cylinder pin was threaded into the frame, into the slot for the cylinder hand. I trraded it to a dealer at parts value. All of the Italian repros I've seen seem to be slightly smaller at the threaded end of the cylinder pin than the Centaure gun was - probably to allow a bit more "meat" in the frame, I'd guess..

[drjldavis]

A Centennial fluted cylinder 1860 Army with shoulder stock just sold on Gun Broker for around $755.  Forgert Blue Book for any values on any of the replica black powder revolvers.  Most of their information is even inaccurate.