![]() ![]() Construction is all steel, with original black composite grips. At some point, a pretty skilful country gunsmith cut and correctly crowned its barrel down to 2 1/8 inches, down from the original 3 1/2 to 4 inch vicinity. 38 was manufactured in either 1896, along side its similarly numbered Iver Johnson counterparts or perhaps around 1916 or 1917. From its D12000 range serial number, this US Revolver. That is why manufacturers keep the velocities low on. Revolvers like this one came on line during the waning days of black powder cartridges, and during the early days of smokeless powder, so their frames are not really designed to stand the pressures that smokeless powder revolvers, notably the. Type is double action only top break revolver. Manufacturer was Iver Johnson Cycle Works of Fitchburg, Massachusetts. ![]() Revolver Company Hammerless, or enclosed hammer variant that comes to us from a Kansas Collection. Description: Here is a worthy specimen of the Safety Hammerless series of revolvers manufactured in great abundance from the late 1800s up until about 1950. ![]()
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