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SOUTHERN DERINGER
MFG'D BY
F. H. CLARK
MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE

This is actually a rare Southern Deringer manufactured by, not agent marked, F. H. Clark, Memphis, Tennessee.  It has a .44 caliber, 3 3/4 inch barrel with an overall length of 7 1/2 inches.  It has an iron trigger guard and ramrod ferrule with German silver mountings elsewhere.  The breech plug is marked F. H. CLARK & CO. MEMPHIS.  The gun has lost most of its checkering and has a hairline crack in the forearm on the right side.  Overall, it has moderate wear but no significant or disfiguring pitting and the action works smoothly.  You will notice at the bottom of this page that I have pictured it alongside another gun.  That gun is also made by F. H. Clark but it is not marked.  Both guns have the same style iron trigger guard and ramrod ferrule.  They are both obviously from the same source.  The top gun in the photo is completely devoid of markings.  If you will take the time to look at the bottom of page 210 in Doug Eberhart's book The Deringer in America, you will see another gun which shares exactly the same characteristics and is from the same manufacturing source.  It is agent marked H. E. Dimick.  All three guns are stamped RC with a die stamp on the bottom of the barrel.  It becomes apparent that F. H. Clark made a Deringer that served many purposes.  Some of them were marked with his mark, as this one is.  Some were left unmarked and sold to other dealers and some were agent marked by other dealers.  Yet they are all three made by F. H. Clark.  Price $2,950.  Price Reduced $1,950!!   SOLD!!