Welcome to at present’s Photo of the Day! Here now we have what’s arguably Marlin’s most profitable handgun. This is the Marlin XXX Standard. These small pocket revolvers have been produced in 1872 by 1876 with some small adjustments like cylinder lengthening and flutes alongside the best way. These have been of a tip-up design very similar to the smaller Smith & Wesson pocket revolvers which had not discovered their high break but. The Marlin XXX Standard was made to compete with such designs like that Smith & Wesson in addition to Colt’s New Line, the Remington Smoot, and Sharps’ No 2 Derringer. It apparently held its personal with a grand whole of round 25,000 being produced (tweaked fashions included). Marlin would go on to supply an 1875, 1878, and 1887 revolver however not considered one of them could be used so totally because the 1872 Marlin XXX Standard.
“Factory engraved scrollwork covers nearly all of the surfaces. The silver plated copper “Lady Pattern” DeGress grips present a aid engraved girl enjoying a tambourine on the precise panel and leaf and scroll on the left facet with the patent data within the middle. Francis DeGress of Bloomfield, New Jersey, patented his methodology for molded copper “pistol handles” handled with acid after which gilded with silver in 1874. Examples of his molded grips have been seen on revolvers of a number of producers and are extremely sought out by collectors. Marlin knowledgeable and writer William Brophy wrote, “the DeGress grips are desirable and a pistol fitted with them belongs in every serious Marlin collector’s collection.”
Lot 1061: Marlin Xxx Standard 1872 Revolver with DeGress Patent Grips – Factory Engraved Marlin Xxx Standard 1872 Spur Trigger Pocket Revolver with Desirable DeGress Patent Grips. (n.d.). Rock Island Auction Company. {photograph}. Retrieved February 10, 2023, from https://www.rockislandauction.com/detail/80/1061.
