howday all; i,ve been searching the web for a week for any
kind of info on this beast and zippo for any info. i can,t find any
ser # anywhere but there is #16 on all the parts. on top of the barrel u can see th&wesson springf*** Mass. some letters
have been buffed out in the past. there is a star over u on the barrel. there is a faint stamp on the front of the cyl
with what looks like the letters E
L G arranged like so

here are some pics. when i zoom in the letters and faint stamp
show up quite good. it don,t look like any S&W in all the scofields pics that i looked at????? i e-mailed S&W and no answer. i,m not send them $50 and have them tell me it,s not a smith.LOL TIA for any info, good or bad.

Nice eye appeal,but that's a copy of European heritage,probably Belgian.

If it is a 50 caliber, it would be an impressive gun to shoot! It is definitely a copy. It is interesting that someone took many hours engraving this revolver to sell as a counterfeit.

I'm thinking that it's probably an European caliber,maybe an 11mm?

Definitely Belgian, manufactured in Liege between 1866 and 1893.

The marking on the face of the cylinder, "E" / "LG" / "*" in an oval, was the Belgian definitive black-powder proof mark which was applied to firearms barrels manufactured in Liege from 1810 until 1893. In 1866 it was decreed that this mark was to also be applied to the cylinders of revolvers. In 1893 this proof mark was replaced by a similar one, but with the addition of a crown at the top of the oval.

TL

thanks . i,m new to this antique thing. this a 5 groove barrel.
.500 in drill rod slides in the barrel with about .001 in play.
500 S&W mag brass that has been shortened fits perfectly.
i wonder if it was made under licence. the springfield mass address on top of the barrel has me confused. of course i
confuse easy. LOL i just made new grips for it as the bone or
ivory grips were just too skinny for my hands. i made a swage die and swageing 275 gr 44 mag pure lead bullets into
50 cal heeled bullets. this is going to be my bush gun.
thanks again for the help
Louis

Smith & Wesson did not license this gun. Be very careful how much black powder ( or equivalent) with which you load your cartridges , as the metal in this gun's cylinder is not heat treated and will easily rupture under smokeless powder pressures. Ed.

Do not dispose of those Ivory grips, since that is the major part of the value of this revolver. The fact that it is 50 caliber is great, let us know how it shoots (with Black Powder of course).

I have a Belgium copy of a S&W DA also. Not only did they steal the design from S&W, they also stole the design of the fabled "Bridgeport Rig". Marking says "Schofield .44 S&W Ctge", but it is actually a 44-40.

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