Hollywerd???

[Coffinmaker]

Strange movie today.  Invitation to a Gunfighter w/Yule Brenner.  Set after the Civil War, Brenner's gun was a cartridge converted 1860 (two piece cylinder).  Now where did they get an 1860 Conversion in the early 1960s??

Coffinmaker

[Blair]

Coffinmaker,

The Italians had been making repro cap and ball revolvers since the late 1950's
Once the movie industry became involved, they needed a way to reload the blanks used in that industry. So they developed alterations (loosely) based on known conversions from the time period. However, their alterations did not have to be historically accurate for the film industry. Only look sort of, kind of like the real thing. Of course, these were just movie props.
You can see this time and again within the Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns, among many others.

These types of fantasy/factious arms are still being perpetrated on us to this day. And will continue as long as 'WE' continue to buy them.
Is it their fault? No! Of course it isn't!
It is ours! Ours for buying the make shift stuff they offer. Ours for not knowing our own historical firearms.

Off the soap box... Sorry!

[swampman]

I was told that in the film 'Major Dundee', the 1860 Army Richards conversion that Charleton Heston used was from Heston's personal collection.

[Graveyard Jack]

Probably made by a prop company.

[StrawHat]

Or it might have been an original.  Not a lot of interest in conversions until recently.  Watch some of the early westerns and see the number of original Henrys, Winchester 1866s and 1873, even a few 1876s.  Ben Cartwright carried a Remington revolver long before replicas of them were made. 

[Major 2]

I was told that in the film 'Major Dundee', the 1860 Army Richards conversion that Charleton Heston used was from Heston's personal collection.

You were told correctly