Hmm... the rough machine marks visible on the hammer and trigger, and to a lesser extent on the frame itself,
says this is not an expensive, quality gun like a Colt New Line,
or a Smith & Wesson no. 1.
The front sight shape says it's not an H&R.
The shape of the hammer spur rules out about 95% of the rimfire spur-trigger revolvers made by Hopkins & Allen.
The fluted cylinder is pretty distinctive; most small spur trigger revolvers did have flutes on the cylinder.
This gun's birds head grips are squared off at the top near the trigger, otherwise I would say this is a Hood revolver because Hood did make small rimfire revolvers with unfluted cylinders and rounded front sights.... But HOOD grips were rounded on the top end.
Ditto for Forehand & Wadsworth:
they aways used rounded top grip panels for the birdshead spur trigger revolvers, and 95% of the time their hammers were different too, with the spur located substantially lower on the hammer body.
I'll go with Iver Johnson, one of their "Defender" models (part of an entire class of firearms that were later termed suicide specials'.)
The cylinder indexing slots are so disproportionately long to the short cylinder, I'll say this one was a 22 rimfire --probably not even for "long rifle" cartidges, but rather shorts or longs.
says this is not an expensive, quality gun like a Colt New Line,
or a Smith & Wesson no. 1.
The front sight shape says it's not an H&R.
The shape of the hammer spur rules out about 95% of the rimfire spur-trigger revolvers made by Hopkins & Allen.
The fluted cylinder is pretty distinctive; most small spur trigger revolvers did have flutes on the cylinder.
This gun's birds head grips are squared off at the top near the trigger, otherwise I would say this is a Hood revolver because Hood did make small rimfire revolvers with unfluted cylinders and rounded front sights.... But HOOD grips were rounded on the top end.
Ditto for Forehand & Wadsworth:
they aways used rounded top grip panels for the birdshead spur trigger revolvers, and 95% of the time their hammers were different too, with the spur located substantially lower on the hammer body.
I'll go with Iver Johnson, one of their "Defender" models (part of an entire class of firearms that were later termed suicide specials'.)
The cylinder indexing slots are so disproportionately long to the short cylinder, I'll say this one was a 22 rimfire --probably not even for "long rifle" cartidges, but rather shorts or longs.
