Spring 2026 Premier Firearms & Militaria Auction
February 26th, February 27th, February 28th, and March 1st, 2026
This auction will feature an outstanding collection of items spanning multiple categories including Modern, Military, Sporting, & Antique firearms & militaria! Below is just a small grouping of select highlights from the massive offering to be featured in this upcoming sale!
UNIQUE LEMAT WITH SHOTGUN 16” EXTENSION BARREL.
01-27599
Cal. 41 / 24ga
NSN
This truly bizarre and unique revolver has a very long collection history. It was first published in October 1918 on cover of Hobbies Magazine and ended up in the remarkable LeMat collection of the late Cliff Young. Revolver is in the standard configuration of Civil War percussion LeMats, 6.75″ full octagonal barrel atop a shorter shotgun barrel, hammer with selector switch between 9-shot rifled barrel & single shot “grapeshot” barrel.
The unique feature which has made this pistol so iconic is the 16″ screw on extension shotgun barrel. This revolver of English manufacture with Birmingham proofs on cylinder and barrel was later altered with extension barrel and spring loaded arm on the left side of frame to stop cylinder rotation with corresponding small round slots. The revolver was originally made with LeMat’s patent reciprocating pin mechanism which often broke and wherever this revolver was modified, the complex reciprocating pin rotation system was abandoned for the added arm and cylinder stops. This revolver has seen hard use but well cared for and has always been a wonderful curiosity since it first appeared in print over 100 years ago to collectors.
UNATTACHED ACCESSORIES: research file including copy of Cowan/Little John auction catalog; early photos of gun, Copy of Hobbies Magazine with gun on cover, copy of Flayderman list.
PROVENANCE: Ben Ames Williams (1889-1953) American novelist & writer; illustrated on cover of Hobbies Magazine, Oct. 1918; Charles L. Bricker (1878-1967) collection; Flayderman catalog to Cliff Young 1968; Cowan/Little John auction lot 73, April 26, 2016; The Esteemed Norm Greenberg Collection.
STATUS: ANTIQUE
