Our prop man just described it as a pistol firing a 10 gauge shotgun shell.  I thought maybe it was custom made.  But a fan flagged it as probably a Remington Mar III flare gun dating from the late 1890s.  Here’s  part of what he told us:  “These are Spanish American War era flare guns, and were often issued to the Navy.”  [They] could have been used in the Spanish American War, or in Mexico going after Pancho Villa, or WWI. Even without the notion of a custom made gun, the design of the Mark III goes back far enough.”

There is no ads to display, Please add some