Welcome to at present’s Photo of the Day! Here now we have a extremely neat and really uncommon Grant-Hammond handgun. This explicit one is a prototype that operates on a blow-forward mechanism. The method it really works is the barrel shroud is a hole tube and the barrel itself ends about an inch away from the muzzle. After the barrel ends there’s a small hole after which a easy barrel. The trapped gasoline sends the slide transferring ahead till the gasoline pressures change into protected and the slide will recoil to the rear inflicting the outdated cartridge to be ejected, the hammer cocked, and a brand new spherical picked up. As talked about within the title the journal actually ejects itself after the ultimate spherical is fired. The journal has a spring clip on the facet which switches orientation and mainly tells the gun wether it’s loaded or not.
“This is an extremely rare early Grant-Hammond prototype/tool room “blow-forward” mannequin check pistol. The Grant-Hammond Manufacturing Co. of Hartford, Conn. is greatest know for it earlier massive body 45ACP semi-automatic pistols that had been submitted to the U.S. Ordnance Dept. for Army testing circa 1915/16. However, previous to that point the Grant-Hammond additionally experimented with a number of earlier patents for a small body blow-forward design in Oct 1912 and July 1913 that had been much like these manufactured in Europe. The firm was really granted patents on these designs in 1915, which might in all probability point out this pistol was manufactured circa 1913-1915 time-frame. It has a spherical barrel, mounted/mounted to the body with recoil spring mounted across the outdoors of the barrel. It is recoil actuated which permits the slide and barrel jacket to blow ahead, to start out the biking actions. The breech bolt stays in a stationary/locked place (ahead) throughout firing after which is pushed backward when the barrel jacket and slide housing recoil to the rear. It has a hard and fast entrance and rear sights and is fitted with a set of easy walnut grip panels. The pistol has no proofmarks or serial quantity and stays completely within the white. This might be the one Grant-Hammond small body prototype within the white ever produced.”
Lot 3641: Extremely Rare Early Grant-Hammond Small Frame Prototype/Test 32. (n.d.). Rock Island Auction Company. {photograph}. Retrieved December 7, 2022, from https://www.rockislandauction.com/detail/72/3641/extremely-rare-early-granthammond-small-frame-prototypetest-32.
