radrennan737, First of all, I'm not offended, I've been around too long to get offended by honest people who are attempting to learn, and I think you are one of these. The info above from various posters is pretty much on the money. These are guns that are capable of being fired, it appears, with .44S&W Russian caliber ammo., so that lets' out Franklin Mint as the maker, as they can only make non-gun replicas, as the are not licensed by BATF as manufacturers of real firearms. While the barrels have some sort of Cryllic ( Russian) markings, I'm not too sure these marks are genuine and not an attempt to copy Russian looking stampings. More research by Russian scholars is necessary, Fred Datig could tell you in a minute, what it says, or doesn't say, and where these came from. Didn't you wonder why a Russian gun would have Russian barrel rib marks and on the same barrel have the caliber marked in English? Dead giveaway that these are copies of the third model S&W Russian model made up as replicas. Also, the close up pictures of the engraving now tell me these guns were not produced as period pieces in the middle east , The engraving is a typical modern copy of the New York style Nimschke engraving popular in the late 1800s. I'm leaning towards modern made copies, perhaps Italian or Russian, and the engraving has removed the proof marks indicating such. Perhaps Val Forgett, Navy Arms, or Walter Craig had their fingers in the pie on these guns. Tell us what the is history of how your father acquired these guns and any provenance you might know about. You stated they were "registered Schofields" but haven't explained where that nonmenclature orginated. Can you please enlighten us on that? I think you probably know now, from the above photos, that the differences between your guns and a real Schofields are distinctive and obvious to collectors. Schofields are also .45 caliber, not .44S&W Russian. Apparently the early info. you received on this pair was from a source that knew very little about S&Ws but were hoping to pass these guns off to the unwary at a high price. My suggestion of a no reserve auction was to get the market place to respond in an arena that sometimes brings high hammer prices from bidders that are not collectors, per se. Serious S&W collectors would pay very little for this pair, so there's not chance we are trying to steal these at an auction! Good Luck. Ed.
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