Video: My lovely S&W no.1½ "Tip-up" 32 caliber rimfire Revolver

 

Smith & Wesson began their long line of revolver making with the "Tip-up" spur trigger revolvers like my .32 caliber rimfire model 1½ "New Model" 😎

S&W model 1½ "tip up" revolver and St.John, New Brunswick City Police

Recently, while browsing through an auction site, and  I was pleased to come across a nickel plated S&W #1½ New model that was made between 1868-75,  which, at some time in the past, was a service pistol with the St.John NB Canada City Police Dept.

 this is my lovely factory blued .32 caliber rim fire S&W #1½ New model revolver! 

I think the first S&W rimfire revolvers were quite an elegant mechanical design, and it's too bad they didn't produce a .38RF "tip-up" model, like J.M Marlin did with their "Standard" series of tip-up revolvers.

The cartridges aren't original collectable & really expensive examples, they are like the widely available machined brass cases with off-center primer pockets that use 6mm rimfire starter pistol blanks, and filled with black powder, however, for the photo, the cases are empty and  I have seated a .32 caliber or .315" lead round ball.

S&W Revolvers

 

Here is my Smith & Wesson no.1½ New Model .32 caliber rim-fire cartridge revolver which was made in 1875.

To reload this revolver, the barrel was designed to "tip up" and then the cylinder could be  removed.

Shells were ejected with the tool found under the barrel of the pistol.