Hello all this is my first post so I hope i don't botch it too badly, this is one of the few things I was able to save from the estate sale when my grandmother passed last spring. I believe the story goes that it was one of his sidearms used in the war.
Since then it looks like he or possibly his local smith did a relatively poor barrel job(looks like they just hacked its original one down to 2in) and replaced the grips with these after market franzite's.
I've been told its pre 46, I've been told early 1900's, but I will leave this one in the hands of the experts here. On the underside of the barrel, rear of the cylinder, under the star extractor, and on the butt the SN is 2499, but on the cylinder arm and the cylinder frame it reads 2523. I will try to post pics here later, I don't care at all about value as I would never sell this one, but its become an obsession trying to find out its age. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance
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