My latest MH acquisition

[Zip Wyatt]

Walking through the gun show today and saw this beauty for less than half what I normally see them going for - needs a main spring but that's it!  All there, all the markings clear as a bell, locks up tight, grips are perfect but changing to a chocolate brown color, and decent suction in 1873 Winchester caliber. Third model double action.  Take a look:



Has an intertesting three letter mark that looks like H.E. R. - anybody got any ideas about that one?



Thanks for looking!

Zip

[Zip Wyatt]

A guy over at the SASS wire was able to research that "HER" was for Hal Roach Studios so this Merwin is a movie/tv prop gun.  How cool is that?

Zip

[GunClick Rick]

I need an old holster like that one in the picture for an old lightning in 38 i got.

[Zip Wyatt]

Rick,

I got it off of ebay - probably had an 1873 Colt in it at some point based on the impressions in the leather but it fits the Merwin just fine. 

Nice looking Lightning!

Zip

[Driftwood Johnson]

Howdy

You done real good. Love that long barrel combined with the skull crusher grip. I'd love to have an original MH. Haven't come across one that I could afford yet, except for one that was a real beater.

[Hill Beachy]

Zip:  That a real beauty-- great find!

I once saw one of the pocket models (3rd or 4th, I don't recall but it had the topstrap) in .38 S&W at a gun show.  That one had FOUR barrels and came complete with a leather-covered, felt-lined box.  Cost was a bit out of my price range at $7000.

Those are great old guns.