Original British Nickel Silver Mounted "Philadelphia Deringer" Style Pocket Percussion Pistol by Richard Hollis - Circa 1845 Vietnam and other Commonwealth airborne units

and other Commonwealth airborne units

This example is marked on the front side:

The Red Ball Express was a famed truck convoy system that supplied Allied forces moving quickly through Europe after breaking out from the D-Day beaches in Normandy in 1944

The serial number is 339358B denoting the year of manufacture as 1890

Ejects empty magazines after the final shot

Original British Nickel Silver Mounted "Philadelphia Deringer" Style Pocket Percussion Pistol by Richard Hollis - Circa 1845 Vietnam and other Commonwealth airborne unitsOriginal Item: Only One Available. It was a small percussion concealable pistol made by "DERINGER" that John Wilkes Boothe used to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theater in 1865. By this action alone the name Deringer entered national mind and language of the United States being linked to "an Assassin's weapon". Now spelled with two consecutive "R"s, the term DERRINGER is part of everyday life. So famous did Henry Deringer become that