Original U.S. Civil War Era Silver Mounted "Baby Deringer" Philadelphia Pocket Percussion Pistol by Henry Deringer - circa 1860 DVD At first the system proved

At first the system proved to be insufficient and many soldiers were dying in mobile hospitals at the front and could not be transported to the general hospitals for needed care

On 20 March 1918

This does not appear to be the factory grind

Between late February and early April 1945

The plating is mostly intact on the crossguard but there is bubbling

Original U.S. Civil War Era Silver Mounted "Baby Deringer" Philadelphia Pocket Percussion Pistol by Henry Deringer - circa 1860 DVD At first the system provedOriginal Items. Only One Available. It was a small percussion concealable pistol made by "DERINGER" that John Wilkes Boothe used to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theater in 1865. By this action alone the name Deringer entered national mind and language of the United States being linked to "an Assassin's weapon". Now spelled with two consecutive "R"s, the term DERRINGER is part of everyday life. So famous did Henry Deringer become