I have noted later guns with the one line AMADEO ROSSI & CIA inscription given above on the left side of the barrel and the right side marked S. The grips are cheap checkered plastic with the Rossi name in a circle at the top. Beneath the cylinder on the right side is the importer’s name and address: FIREARMS INT’L CORP., WASHINGTON, D.C. surrounding the circle at top and bottom. The right side of the frame is stamped MADE IN BRAZIL and features the Rossi logo trademark, the word “Rossi” in a circle, with IND. My gun is marked on the left side of the barrel Later guns have the barrel inscriptions reversed. Surrounding the monogram at top and bottom. On the right side of the frame is the early logo, a monogram of the company’s initials, “ ARC,” in a circle, with MADE IN BRAZIL above and IND. It is marked on the left side of the barrel: #Rossi serial numbers serial number#The earliest serial number I have located thus far is 12551. The serial number is on the base of the grip. On “Princess.” A less-macho appellation could not have been had, but I suppose some similar name was inevitable given the gun’s diminutive size and resemblance to the Ladysmith. market it seems to have been called a Ladysmith by default, but another trade name was needed for it and some marketing genius decided The model designations are rarely used in the United States. The 2-inch barrel version was designated by Rossi as the Model 25, and the 3-inch barrel version was the Model 13. #Rossi serial numbers serial numbers#From the serial numbers I have seen, it looks as though close to a million were made.* The Princess was available with a 2- or 3-inch barrel, in nickelįinish only. The Princess was manufactured from 1957 through approximately 1985, but was only imported into the United States from 1965 through 1969-another victim of the GunĬontrol Act of 1968. The barrel has a steel liner and the cylinder is made of steel. That the strongest one, Zamak 2, is substantially stronger than commonly-used high strength aluminum alloys. However, it has been pointed out to me by an engineer friend that Zamak is a family of alloys and Pete Dickey’s article in the September 1982 issue of American Rifleman states that the Princess’s frame is die cast from “Zamak,” a zinc-based alloy which incorporatesĪluminum, magnesium, and copper. Johnson-style transfer bar and a rebounding firing pin. It has coil springs instead of flat springs and features an Iver Rossi firearms were later imported by Interarms, but I don’t believe they ever imported the Princess.Įxternally the Princess is a copy of the third model Smith & Wesson Ladysmith, but the lockwork is quite different. Most examples I have seen are stamped FIREARMS INT’L CORP., WASHINGTON, D.C. I find the gun first listed in Gun Digest in 1966, where it is described as the Rossi Ladysmith, imported by Benet Arms. I could find no mention of older Rossi firearms, such as the Princess, on the company’s U It does not appear in the Bluebook of Gun Values or the Standard Catalog of Firearms. There is virtually nothing in print about the Rossi Princess revolver.
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