Deringer Pistol
name: label: maker; inventor
content: Deringer, Jr., Henry
notes: label: Description
content: Physical Description
label: Description
content: Wooden handle with steel barrel.
label: Description
content: General History
label: Description
content: A small yet effective weapon, the deringer is the type of weapon a woman spying for the Confederacy might have kept in the pocket of a dress or in a handbag.
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania
topic: label: Subject
content: Spies
label: Subject
content: Firearms
label: related event
content: Civil War
label: related event
content: Civil War and Reconstruction
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content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Military
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content: Military
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content: ThinkFinity
label: Exhibition
content: Price of Freedom
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AF.68332MA
label: accession number
content: 250307
label: catalog number
content: 68332M(A)
label: serial number
content: 4
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pistol
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 4 3/4 in x 1 1/4 in; 7.62 cm x 12.065 cm x 3.175 cm