Arms, Armor and Militaria

Good. Bore moderately oxidized with evenly distributed light pitting and blackpowder style rifling. Metal chemically toned to a brownish blue with scattered light pitting and an apparently old cleaning prior to the toning which has left the markings weak in some areas, particularly the serial number on the cylinder. Mechanically functional action. Grip with moderate wear, sanded, leaving the grip frame and backstrap somewhat proud of the wood. As noted above, the hammer is an incorrect replacement, the ejector rod head is incorrect, and the locating stud is missing from the interior of the ejector rod housing. Cylinder arbor pin screw head is essentially destroyed. Holster is fair to good as modified and unrelated to the gun.

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