***NOW SOLD***Antique (c1862) Bacon Arms Company Bacon Civil War Pocket Revolver .31 Revolver.

Antique (c1862) Bacon Arms Company Bacon Civil War Pocket Revolver .31 Revolver.

The Bacon Arms Company was established by Thomas K Baker (1813-1873) in 1859. Baker was a machinist. Bacon manufactured parts at first for another well-known gun maker, Ethan Allen, before establishing his first company between 1847 and 1850. The production was small and total employees never exceeded about fifteen, and it failed around 1856. In 1859 the second company was born, Bacon Manufacturing Company. Before forming this company, Bacon had been employed by Manhattan Firearms Company, and they promptly sued him for doing so, but the suit was dropped. Bacon manufactured until 1863 when he was forced out of the company by a major shareholder and the company continued manufacturing under the Bacon title until 1868 and eventually evolved into the famous Hopkins and Allen Company.  

Obsolete calibre and antique.