Booth's Derringer

[Wesley Harris]

The article featured on that website is mine; without regard to copyright law or permission from me or America's Civil War magazine, I might add. But as they say in Hollywood, the only bad publicity is no publicity at all.

I haven't never seen the type of replica you are seeking. Booth's Deringer pistol is so small that so-called 'replicas' are usually produced in a larger size. Since every Henry Deringer pistol was handmade, every one is slightly different. The engraving was quite intricate and no replica I've seen duplicates that level of detail. The foremost expert on Deringers, L.D. Eberhart, told me he had never seen a real Deringer of the same dimensions as Booth's. A real Deringer of approximately the same size sells for about $2,000.