If memory serves me right, Clerke's were prototypical of what was referred to as a "Saturday night special". Made from cast alloy (Zinc and/or low grade aluminum primarily) most were chambered for low-pressure cartridges -- .22LR, .32 S&W (not long) mostly and the .38 S&W (not special). If one of these guns survived firing more that 200 rounds, I'd be surprised. One specimen that I saw -- in .22 caliber -- you could see where the sprue holes were in the casting mould as they had barely polished (not machined) them off. The .38 S&W was better finished but it had fallen from an idiot's pocket in a parking lot. The fall not only popped the cylinder open, it cracked it and fractured the joke they called the cylinder crane.
Clerkes made the RG/Rohm guns look like premium guns.
Among the lowest quality firearms ever built in a factory, value of a specimen in excellent condition would be $25-$50.
The Clerke revolver is generally considered the cheapest/worst made revolver... Ever. You might be able to get me to take it off your hands if you paid me enough.
No, not really. A .32 S&W Long caliber gun is not considered powerful by today's standards.
A revolver is so named because the bullets are in a cylinder which revolves to supply a new round to be fired after each shot. A pistol is usually supplied by a magazine which is in the grip.
50 or so
250 to 500
A single-shot .44 caliber derringer pistol.
Buy some books that deal with the type you have.
$100-$150
at that time there were only single shot rifles and pistols. A single shot weapon was not the best to have when fighting indians. He felt a multiple shot weapon was in order. So, he developed the first multiple shot percussion pistol....that developed into the cartridge pistol and rifle............
Impossible to answer without a detailed description to include serial number, barrel length, finish, condition, box, papers, accessories, etc..
You will have to define further. Ever made? Rifle or handgun? Bolt, semi, single shot, revolver, pistol?