A John Walch Fire Arms Co. 10-shot Super-posed Load Pocket Model Revolver, Serial No. 1420, circa 1860-1862

blued octagonal barrel marked WALCH. FIRE ARMS CO. NEW YORK / PAT'D FEB.8. 1859, 10-shot cylinder (5 super-posed chambers), brass frame with spur-trigger, dual hammers with checkered spurs, varnished walnut grips each stamped 1896 

3-1/4 inch barrel



John Walch, New York City, inventor



The number 1896 indicates this revolver was part of the A. E. Brooks Collection of Hartford, Connecticut. The collection was later aquired by the U.S. Cartridge Company of Lowell, Massachusetts.  



Walch's Patent No. 22,905



Approximately 3,000 were made between 1860 and 1862 of which is it estimated only 1,500 to 2,000 were brass frame.  

Abel E. Brooks Collection, Hartford, Connecticut

United States Cartridge Company Collection, Lowell, Massachusetts

Books, A.E. ed, Illustrated Catalogue of the A.E. Brooks Collection, Hartford, Conn.,1899, page 39 (catalogue number 230), and illustrated (indistinctly) page 34 (Case No. 5)

      "230 Welsh Revolvers. cal. 36, percussion, cylinder five chambers. It has two hammers and ten comes. When loaded it shoots ten charges. Two charges in each chamber, one charge on the top of the other : Welsh Patent. February 8, 1859, Made by Welsh Fire Arms Co., New York [1896]"

 

The book incorrectly uses the word WELSH instead of WALCH.

Illustrated Catalogue of United States Cartridge Company's Collection of Firearms, Lowell, Mass., nd (1903),  page 133 (Catalogue No. 663), and illustrated page 128 (Case No. 43)