6/3/2023 0 Comments 38 calibre revolver wwi model![]() We’re offering this solid old Iver Johnson produced US Revolver. We hazard it would be a shooter, but questions like that are best left to competent gunsmiths, and we are neither competent nor gunsmiths. ![]() Bore and cylinder chambers are bright, clean, and excellent as the photos show, and timing is correct on all five positions. Note a few superficial pits in the muzzle crown this revolver’s barrel was cut some time in the 1920s, and the Smith did a good job with the front sight. We classify it as Good Condition, but photos ought to suffice for our shoppers to judge finish grade for themselves. The cooler weather of the Great Plains, where this one evidently spent its career, was kinder to its finish than many of its mates we’ve seen in the South. It is down to a gray and brown patina, with only a few hints of original bluing remaining. Surface detractions are extensive, but note that the finish is quite smooth throughout with only minimal small occasional surface pits. Construction is all steel, with original black composite grips. ![]() At some point, a pretty skilful country gunsmith cut and correctly crowned its barrel down to 2 1/8 inches, down from the original 3 1/2 to 4 inch vicinity. 38 was manufactured in either 1896, along side its similarly numbered Iver Johnson counterparts or perhaps around 1916 or 1917. From its D12000 range serial number, this US Revolver. That is why manufacturers keep the velocities low on. Revolvers like this one came on line during the waning days of black powder cartridges, and during the early days of smokeless powder, so their frames are not really designed to stand the pressures that smokeless powder revolvers, notably the. Type is double action only top break revolver. Manufacturer was Iver Johnson Cycle Works of Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Revolver Company Hammerless, or enclosed hammer variant that comes to us from a Kansas Collection. Description: Here is a worthy specimen of the Safety Hammerless series of revolvers manufactured in great abundance from the late 1800s up until about 1950.
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