Recent find, Top break .32 Cal. CTGE or CTBE on barrel. 39698
I have a good photo of this revolver.

S an W 32 cal.jpg

Nice! Pretty sure that's a Harrington & Richardson .32.

Looks like you have a Harrington and Richardson in 32 S&W cartridge. The bullseye logo on the grips are a trademstk of H&R.

H&R started putting caliber markings on the barrel around 1908 to designate they were safe to shoot smokeless powder ammo. Prior models without the caliber marked on the barrel are for use with black powder ammo only!

Hello CB, and welcome to your first post on the Forum. Find a spot on the gun with a S&W stamp and post pics. Kind of iffy right now.

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Mike 2796
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Is it a 6 shot revolver, or a 5 shot? My guess is its a 6 shot based on the size of the frame. Can you post a picture looking down the cylinder to see if there is a step where diameter of the cylinder chamber narrows?

Its a Harrington an Richardson revolver

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Mark

6 shot as the stop notches are on center of chambers where on 5 shots they are centered between chambers.

Another case of S&W putting their name on the cartridge, which allowed others to place it on the gun AND create some confusion as to manufacture of the actual gun

It didn't take long for others to make close copies of S&W top break models, once the bored through cylinder design picked up a following. Once S&W went to a swing out ejector cylinder it took them longer before the started cloning that design.

Dam fine gun! I'd love to have something like that for a fun project.

You could probably see the boolits going through the air! How cool would that be?