Other People's Manhattans
( Manhattan firearms that do not belong to me ...yet!!!)
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Other People's Manhattans
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Okay, I own a few great Manhattans.  Until I started this Website I thought I had "all" the great Manhattans!!
But I have been proven wrong ...again.  I get photos from a lot of Manhattan collectors whom have Manhattans as good as mine all the
time.  But very rarely do I see a Manhattan that blows me away.  Recently however I received a photo of one.  When I started my
Website I only wanted to show Manhattans I owned, figuring only a few friends would ever look at these pages which is about my
collection.  But as more collectors looked in, it seems to be unfair not to show some of the Manhattans that are not in my collection,
but are among the greatest Manhattan's ever made.  Since this is my Website, I get to decide on what makes a Manhattan good
enough to make it to this page.  Here are a few Manhattan's that make even my mouth water!

Manhattan Navy "One of One Hundred" Serial # 36

Manhattan Firearms during the Civil War manufactured a set of approximately 100 pistols of the Series III design.  These
guns are mostly Ivory gripped and/or engraved.  They have their own serial number range of #1 to 100.  Several have
been Inscribed to Civil War Officers. I reason that near the end of the war there was a market for presentation guns and
Manhattan decided to make a run to have these guns ready to go.  But, maybe they were made as salesman samples to
send to dealers to show Manhattan quality workmanship.  No two have been alike that I have found. I know of less than 10
of these guns to exist in books, old catalogs, and in collections.  So there are still some out there somewhere waiting to be
found.  Here is one of these owned by a fellow collector George who agreed to share this with all of us.
Manhattan Series III Navy Sn# 36 Right Side
Manhattan Series III Navy Sn# 36 Left Side
Carved Ivory Grips on Sn# 36
(at first glance I assumed this to be an English Royal Seal with
two lions as part of a Royal Crest )
Close up of Missouri State Seal on Sn# 36

This carving is of the Missouri State Seal. It show two Bears,
The Roman numeral MDCCCXX (the year of Missouri Statehood),
and the State Motto "Salus Populi Suprema Lex Esto".
The  Missouri State Seal