Object Details
- maker; inventor
- Deringer, Jr., Henry
- Description
- Physical Description
- Wooden handle with steel barrel.
- General History
- A small yet effective weapon, the deringer is the type of weapon a woman spying for the Confederacy might have kept in the pocket of a dress or in a handbag.
- ID Number
- AF.68332MA
- accession number
- 250307
- catalog number
- 68332M(A)
- serial number
- 4
- Object Name
- pistol
- Physical Description
- steel (overall material)
- wood (overall material)
- brass (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3 in x 4 3/4 in x 1 1/4 in; 7.62 cm x 12.065 cm x 3.175 cm
- place made
- United States: Pennsylvania
- See more items in
- Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Military
- Military
- ThinkFinity
- Exhibition
- Price of Freedom
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Spies
- Firearms
- related event
- Civil War
- Civil War and Reconstruction
- Record ID
- nmah_1301428
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-e110-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
