[MUSIC PLAYING]
RICK: So earlier a guy came in with a percussion
revolving pistol.
It looks like something that was probably
built during the Civil War as an army contract, maybe.
But I'm just shooting from the hip there.
I have no idea.
So I've called in Alex, because he'll actually
know what he's talking about.
[LAUGHS]
These are cool.
I know absolutely nothing about this.
[LAUGHS] It's Civil War-ish.
It's a pretty good guess.
Yeah, it is Civil War-ish.
It's a Savage & North figure 8 revolver.
This is the model 1856.
So it's pre-Civil War.
Savage & North were based in Middletown, Connecticut.
They did make revolvers for the Union Army and the Navy.
And this was an attempt to create a rapid fire revolver.
It just looks like a terrible design to me.
Well, it was radical for its time.
It has a ring trigger here.
When you pull the ring trigger back, it cocks it.
And then the upper trigger will actually fire it.
So you can-- and you get a much faster rate of fire
as you do that.
And especially if you were on horseback,
you wanted to be able to use one hand to fire it, not two.
Because the other had to hold onto the horse.
Yeah.
So here's the thing.
There were so many variations of this type.
This is actually the very first model, second variation.
So what is the difference in the variation?
So the very first model, they only made 10 of.
And those are rare as hens' teeth.
The second variation-- this one, which
was really just used for testing,
they made less than 250.
So the serial numbers for these are always on the grip frame.
So to find that, I've got to take off the grip.
Is that all right?
Yeah, if you've got the right tools.
Sure.
If it doesn't have it, it's going to impact the price,
and not in a good way.
OK, so right here you can see there's a serial number.
And it looks like it's 29.
So that's a good thing.
That means it's the 29th first model, second variation
they ever made.
So overall, it's a really nice, rare gun.
It's definitely desirable.
How much are you asking for it?
I was thinking around $10,000.
Frankly, that's a little on the high end.
OK.
It's certainly a valuable pistol.
The one thing that I think, if you're really
considering purchasing this, that we should do
is to try to fire it.
And the reason I say that is the collectors market for this
is very strong just for what it is.
However, if it can function and function properly,
I think the range is not far off from what you're asking,
depending on how it performs.
Want to go to a shooting range?
Just down the street.
Let's do it.
Yeah, OK.
Well, you want to put it back together?
I will put it back together.
[LAUGHTER]
I've never shot the gun.
I'm glad that we're going to go shoot
it and see what it's worth.
So these pistols can be really finicky.
If it fails, it will still be of value.
It just won't be as high value.
Well, let's hope it shoots.
Yeah.
So full cock.
And here we go.
[GUNSHOT]
[LAUGHTER]
Nice.
That's one.
[GUNSHOT]
[GLASS BREAKING]
[GUNSHOT]
Three.
That's indexing OK.
[GUNSHOT]
Four.
[GUNSHOT]
Five.
One more.
[GUNSHOT]
Five out of six.
It worked really well.
The sixth guy would have probably killed you.
But-- - Yeah.
Yeah. [LAUGHTER]
I wasn't too far away either.
So.
All right, so it works.
Yeah.
I would say it performed really well.
You have a really fine example of an extremely rare
pistol, an early serial number.
So the top of the market for these--
I know you wanted 10 grand.
But $7,500 is, really, I think, the limit.
And I think this gets there.
All right.
Well, thanks, man. - All right.
- All right. - Very nice to meet you.
Nice meeting you.
OK, so what do you want?
[SIGHS] How about $7,000?
No, how about $4,000.
$4,000?
$5,000?
$4,000.
It's a really cool gun.
Eventually, I will get that number.
But it will take a while.
It is a very limited number of customers
out there looking for this. - Yeah.
If it was a colt, I'd pay you more.
It'd sell quicker.
Sure.
I'll tell you what.
I'll give you $4,100.
$4,100 today?
- Today. - Today?
All right. Yeah.
Yeah?
- $4,100. - Let's do it.
- [LAUGHS] - All right.
All right.
All right, so here.
You take this.
OK.
You take it back to the pawn shop.
OK.
I will gather up the mess.
And I'll be down there in a half hour.
OK? - Perfect, thank you.
All right.
It's not the $10,000 I was asking for.
But you know what?
I'm going to take this $4,100 and go get me a new truck.