There isn’t that much more to know about them.
Colt produced the civilian New Navy and Army revolvers concurrent with the military versions. While most of the military variants (except some later Navy) had wooden stocks, the civilian versions had hard rubber stocks. The most obvious way to distinguish Army from Navy are the type of stock logo.
The .41 civilian version was technically identical to the .38, but these were never issued in .41, and the caliber was much less popular. I don’t know about present-day ammo availability.
The mechanisms on the DA Colts of that generation have a reputation to be somewhat delicate and hard to repair, but I have no first-hand experience in the respect. I’ve only got a military .38 Army 1901 at present, and it hasn’t broken yet.
Attached: Montgomery Ward catalog 1895
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