The design was little changed during a production run of nearly 70 years through several financial reorganizations of the manufacturer causing repeating serial number sequences.
Guns were offered with engraving or plain blued or nickel-plated finish with grips of metal, walnut, rosewood, hard rubber, ivory or pearl.
(This refers to firearms inventor William H. Elliot's U.S. Patent 51,440, "Improvement in Many-Barreled Fire-Arms", which describes the key features of the original design in some detail.
The second model is marked on the top rib in two lines, "E REMINGTON & SONS ILION NY," "ELLIOTS PATENT DEC 12 1865".
Starting in 1922, all Remington guns were stamped with a two-letter date code for the shipping month and year.
Graphic Publishers, 2008, ISBN 1-882824-35-0 According to Cartridges of the World, the .41 Rimfire consisted of a 130-grain (8.4 g) lead bullet propelled by 13 grains (0.8 g) of black powder in its original load.
The difference in findings can potentially be attributed to variances in the specific ammunition fired or measuring equipment used.
[7] In "Judgment in Heaven" (S01E15; 1965 Dec. 22) of The Big Valley, Jarrod Barkley gives Heath a nickel-plated pearl-gripped Double Derringer as a Christmas present.
[8] J.B. Books, portrayed by John Wayne, uses a Double Derringer hidden in his wallet to shoot a robber who tries to stick him up at the beginning of the 1976 film The Shootist.
The two start a barroom brawl on a Mississippi river gambling boat, in which the bar patrons fire comically weak Derringer pistols.
In the Team Fortress 2 promotional short "Expiration Date", the character Ms. Pauling is seen holding a Remington Model 95-styled Derringer.