hello all i have a 5 shot break open 32 revolver with US circled on the grips and US REVOLVER Co with the "o" under scored, if that matters. To be up front i have no intention to sell so price is unimportant to me it was given to me from my grand father along with a really old full paper box of ammo. My question is about the manufactor date both on the trigger guard and under the grip is the number 5096 with no letters before or after. thank you for your help.
Bill, welcome to the forum. Please read the sticky posts at the top of this forum, especially the one that starts of with "US REVOLVER", it tells you where the serial number is located that will tell the experts the info they need to answer your questions. Here is a link and please start a new thread.
I did sir, I read it first, and every location I have found with a number only contains the numbers 5096. I can find no-where on the gun any letter prefix. I have looked through some Iver Johnson's U. S. Revolver Co. numbering data bases before and they all included some kind of letter prefix, that's why I decided to ask around on this forum which includes people who know a lot more about these guns than myself.
Thank you, and I appreciate any help anyone can give,
Bill
I moved it away from that 4 year old thread to a new one. I noticed you tried to upload some pictures. Reduce the size a little (less than 1mb) and try again, for some reason this software won't allow bigger pictures.
In this case your gun was apparently made in 1910, first year of Iver Johnson's U. S. Revolver Co. production, regardless of hammer or hammerless, frame size, or caliber:
Letter prefixes were not added to U. S. model serials until 1917, and Goforth's book lists 1910 serials as 1 to 14250 for all sizes, with footnote "estimate"
Pics of address markings on barrel also show the o in Co underlined in 1910-11.
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