Revolver believed to have belonged to Confederate spy Belle Boyd auctioned for $8,000

(YDR) A .31-caliber, five-shot Allen & Wheelock revolver with ivory grips and a customized wooden case sold for $8,000 at an auction on Sunday, all on the assumption it might have belonged to one of the Civil War's most well-known spies.
The firearm some believe belonged to Belle Boyd, of Martinsburg, W.Va., was sold to a private collector in Chambersburg, said Patrick E. Redding, firearms manager of Redding Auction Service outside Gettysburg. Continued

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Photo of Belle Boyd courtesy of the Library of Congress.