Frames from Hamden
The reason that I ask is that I went to the Hamden plant when it was closing. The company that I worked for bought hundreds of unfinished 12ga barrels.
When my contact heard that I was interested in blackpowder revolvers, he brought me into the model shop and gave me four frames in various states of completion. He said that they were going to get scrapped anyway. I forgot about them until I found them last week. I see on forums where people are interested in all types of revolvers, but no one mentions anything about the High Standards. They did what Colt did. They bought Uberti parts, made a US frame and assembled and finished them here. They were good quality, but today they are almost never mentioned.
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