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S&W Snub-Nose Bicycle Revolvers — Elegant and Vintage

The Smith & Wesson Bicycle Revolvers serve as a link across the decades and they conjure up images of figures who might have used them.

S&W Snub-Nose Bicycle Revolvers — Elegant and Vintage
The Bicycle Revolver would have made a comforting and inconspicuous traveling companion in the days before World War II.

When I saw the film Divergent, I was intrigued by those who chose Dauntless as their faction. While watching them hanging off of trains it occurred to me that most of the guys with whom I had grown up would have been in that faction. About a block from my home was a large railroad siding, almost a mini-­railroad yard. It was one of our preferred playgrounds. We hopped freight trains, occasionally getting on top of them from a bridge above the tracks. I wouldn’t classify us as brave as much as stupid! We also had a “hideout” under the bridge.

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