I've acquired more Bacons, an original Bacon/Mantattan top and a Hopkins and Allen version bottom.
The top gun is where Thomas Bacon begins with an original design while working for Manhattan Arms, it's a 6 shot 32 caliber with the patented Manhattan extra safety notches on the cylinder. Still a work in progress I hope to finish it this year. In the middle is the same design only now made by Mr. Bacon's own company, it keeps the elegant lines, now sporting a 5 shot fluted cylinder in 32 caliber. It's missing the extra safety notches which are covered by Manhattans patent, he and Manhattan having parted company. Manhattan moves from Norwich to New Jersey and produces the more Colt like revolver you see on the left.
Alas Mr. Bacon is more of a gun designer than a business man and takes on a partner who eventually pushes him out. The new company goes on to become Hopkins and Allen, part of the Allen family group started by it's patriarch Ethan Allen. The last Bacons like the one at the bottom are stamped Hopkins and Allen and are just remnants of production, running out the existing parts before the design disappears into history. While the same shape it has lost the factory engraving and other details.
The top gun is where Thomas Bacon begins with an original design while working for Manhattan Arms, it's a 6 shot 32 caliber with the patented Manhattan extra safety notches on the cylinder. Still a work in progress I hope to finish it this year. In the middle is the same design only now made by Mr. Bacon's own company, it keeps the elegant lines, now sporting a 5 shot fluted cylinder in 32 caliber. It's missing the extra safety notches which are covered by Manhattans patent, he and Manhattan having parted company. Manhattan moves from Norwich to New Jersey and produces the more Colt like revolver you see on the left.
Alas Mr. Bacon is more of a gun designer than a business man and takes on a partner who eventually pushes him out. The new company goes on to become Hopkins and Allen, part of the Allen family group started by it's patriarch Ethan Allen. The last Bacons like the one at the bottom are stamped Hopkins and Allen and are just remnants of production, running out the existing parts before the design disappears into history. While the same shape it has lost the factory engraving and other details.
