wormey, You know the letter tells a short story about the Schofield line of revolvers and shipping of your specific SN to exactly as Ed states.

Sometimes a factory letter could reveal some interesting items but, as Ed indicates, on a Schofield there are likely not going to be any surprises. Also, Ed has more accurate shipping dates than Roy as (IIRC) Ed has the shipping receipts and Roy took the dates from the Invoice date. Either way, usually within weeks of each other.

If it is a 5", you can reasonably presume it had been a surplus-ed gun of the late 1890s early 1900s.

I have a 5" nickel (remaining nickel is to period of 1900 or thereabout), another 5" blue (factory refurbished in 1945), and a 5" nickel Wells Fargo that had the "finished changed to nickel" in July 1945, per Roy's letter, that also indicates it had the "Wells Fargo" markings and the 5" barrel when it was presented to the Factory for the refinish in 1945, so that letter was well worth the fee.

Faking Wells Fargo markings did not become popular until the 1980s or thereabout. All price guides from 1990 back put the Wells Fargo at a lesser value than a non-Wells Fargo marked. In the mid 1990s the prices evened out, and by the late 1990s the price of the Wells Fargo leaped ahead or the non-Wells Fargo. Here is when the W.F. Schofields started showing up more frequently, most presented as W.F. guns later discovered to have fake markings added.

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