.44 caliber. 7.5" round barrel. SN: 1169. Blued finish, color casehardened hammer and loading lever, smooth two-piece walnut grips. Single action percussion solid frame revolver with un-fluted six-chamber cylinder, frame groove rear sight and iron blade front sight. Top strap marked FREEMAN'S PAT. DEC. 9, 1862 on one side of the sighting groove and HOARD'S ARMORY, WATERTOWN, NY. on the other side. Matching serial numbers throughout, including the grips which are pencil numbered on their interiors. While considered a "Secondary Martial Revolver", the Freeman's Patent revolver produced by C.B. Hoard was never purchased by the US Government. Hoard did receive a contract to delivery 5,000 of the revolvers, but the samples that were delivered were rejected and eventually between a failure to meet delivery deadlines for his "Watertown" contract Model 1861 Rifle Muskets and the Freeman revolvers, Hoard went out of business. It is not known if any states ever purchased the Freeman revolvers. However, it is known that after the firm went into receivership the guns were being stored in wooden kegs and the son of one of the receivers used to offer the revolvers for sale at $0.25 cents each in the Watertown Square. Only about 2,000 of the guns are believed to have been manufactured. Overall this is a fairly rare Civil War era marital style revolver in very nice condition. {ANTIQUE}