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Find the values for handguns produced by Forehand & Wadsworth: Need to find the value of a firearm made by Forehand & Wadsworth? Our price list contains values in all conditions for the models listed below. Has serial numbers, models, patents and advertisements. A really useful book for the collector. Forehand Arms, Forehand and Wadsworth. (Some of the rarest guns are depicted with low quality images). We are not affiliated with any arms or gun manufacturer. CONTENTS INCLUDE.

Nice example of a F&W New Army. F&W produced the New Army to incorporate modifications to the earlier Old Army model in response to tests of the U.S. Ordinance trials in 1974 when that Model was tested against the Colt SAA and the Schofield, both of which had been previously tested and adopted by the Ordinance Department. I don't know when the New Army was tested, but it must have been approved on some level because a U.S. New Army was sold at Little John's Auctions in 2006. That gun was 'U.S.' stamped, fully inspected and had inspector/ subinspector cartouhes on its stocks Thus, it was not a test gun but was inspected and purchased as an accepted firearm. In John's lot description, he noted that the gun was one of a handfull of known U.S. F&W New Armys and, as an 75 to 80 percent gun, was the best example known. Estimated value was $6K-$10K. It hammered down at $18.5 plus the buyer's vig. OC Young had a couple of high condition civilian New Armys on his site for quite a while priced almost as high as his Merwin Hulberts in comparable condition.
The New Army model was not purchased by the Military for deployment and never caught on in the civilian market as a successor to the Old Army model, which itself was never popular.
For comparison, I picture below my F&W Old Army with a Second Model American.
Forehand & Wadsworth
Firearms Manufacturer
IndustryFirearms
Founded1871
HeadquartersWorcester, Massachusetts, United States
Key people
Sullivan Forehand, Henry C. Wadsworth
ProductsRevolvers

Forehand & Wadsworth (also known as Forehand Arms) was a US firearms manufacturing company based in Worcester, Massachusetts that was formed in 1871 by Sullivan Forehand and Henry C. Wadsworth after the death of their father-in-law, Ethan Allen of Ethan Allen & Company.[1]

History[edit]

In 1871 Sullivan Forehand and Henry C. Wadsworth founded Forehand & Wadsworth from the remnants of Ethan Allen & Company after the death of their father-in-law, Ethan Allen.[1] Wadsworth sold his share of the company to Forehand in 1890 in order to retire and the company was rebranded as Forehand Arms.[2]

The company was involved with a patent infringement lawsuit on behalf of one of their employees, John C. Howe, against the United States government. Howe had patented an ammunition cartridge in 1864, and the US government infringed upon this design in 1868 with the 'Cup Anvil Cartridge' until the expiration of Howe's patent in 1881.[3] Howe asked Forehand to bring a lawsuit against the government, and eight years later the company won the suit on behalf of Howe with a judgement of $66,000. The lawsuit was not paid until after Howe's death and a few weeks before the death of Forehand in 1898.[1]

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Forehand's sons ran the business for several years following the death of their father, but sold it in 1902 to Hopkins & Allen, who had been making Forehand Arms' revolvers under contract.[4]

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Manufacturing[edit]

Corel paintshop pro x2 download. Forehand & Wadsworth manufactured a variety of blackpowder and cartridge revolvers including several versions of the British Bull Dog revolver.[5][6]

In popular culture[edit]

A Forehand & Wadsworth British Bulldog was used in the 1993 movie, Tombstone, by Joanna Pacula while portraying Big Nosed Kate.[7]

References[edit]

  1. ^ abc'Sullivan Forehand'. Collections of the Worcester Society of Antiquity. The Society. 1899. pp. 322–328.
  2. ^Hogg, Ian V.; Walter, John (2004). Pistols of the World. David & Charles. p. 128. ISBN0-87349-460-1.
  3. ^Congress, United States. (1895). 'Legal Representatives of John C. Howe'. Congressional edition 1895. U.S. G.P.O. pp. 3–16.
  4. ^Brophy, William S. (1989). Marlin Firearms: a history of the guns and the company that made them. Stackpole Books. p. 51. ISBN9780811708777.
  5. ^Shideler, Dan (14 July 2010). Gun Digest 2011. Iola, Wisconsin: Krause Publications. pp. 82–83. ISBN1-4402-1561-8.
  6. ^Flayderman, Norm (2007). 'Forehand and Wadsworth Revolvers'. Flayderman's Guide to Antique American Firearms and Their Values. Iola, Wisconsin: F+W Media. p. 479. ISBN978-1-4402-2422-5.
  7. ^Shideler, Dan (2011). Gun Digest Book of Revolvers. Iola, Wisconsin: Gun Digest Books. p. 68. ISBN1-4402-3157-5.

External links[edit]

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