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Roger, Please do not make the assumption the three revolvers you are looking at were not used in the Civil War. The Ordnance Department did not have a First in First out inventory system so just because the closest revolvers on the Springfield list were issued late in the war does not mean the three ...

Hello Hunter,
Welcome to the Remington Society Forum. Just to add some information to what Jim wrote. The Ordnance Department purchased approximately 122,000 Remington revolvers during the Civil War. The serial numbers ranged from 1 to 148,550. There were some civilian purchases along with the ...

Hello Grainger2,
Your revolver was accepted by the Ordnance Department in August of 1864. The letter stamps are inspection marks and are different because there were multiple inspectors inspecting parts. The BH cartouche is that of Benjamin Hannis who inspected New Model Armies at the Remington ...

Hello GreyGus,
The barrel address on your revolver should have a “E” before Remington in the second line. It may have been removed when the revolver was refinished. The dovetailed front sight was used on the Elliot or Old Model revolvers and was carried over to the early New Models to use up ...

Hello LongueCarbine,
There are two main reasons for mixed serial numbers on Remington revolvers. One is a factory error when applying the serial numbers because the digits were stamped one at a time and sometimes a digit was transposed or not stamped at all. The second reason is Remington’s policy ...

Hello bczrx,
Your revolver was manufactured in November of 1864. If it has small letters on various metal parts and a cartouche on the left grip it was accepted by the Ordnance Department and most likely shipped that month. Unfortunately there are no records to which person or unit the revolvers ...

Yes, I have a NMA conversion to 45LC which was done by Frank Osgood in 1908. It only has a five shot cylinder much like the 46RF Remington conversions.

Bill

Ob,
Thanks for the additional pictures. Your revolver is the first one I have seen with the batch number on the cylinder. It may have been placed there when the gun was taken apart to mill the frame bevels. The bevel shown in the picture with the number “8” on the frame is about twice as thick as ...

Hello ob98,
The 8 on the left side of the frame looks to me like it might be a rack number. I have never seen one on the side of the frame like that, however I have seen a couple of 1875’s with a rack number on the bottom of the frame.
I do not believe the 152 on the back of the cylinder is a ...

Hello Nils,
Would it be possible to get a picture of the back of the cylinder from your revolver and a side view of the firing pin. I have a non-Remington Factory cylinder cap conversion of a New Model Army which has been converted to 44 Remington center fire. The nipples have been removed and the ...

Hi Adam, I think the information you are looking for can be found under RSA Gallery on the RSA home page. The third album has 48 pages of serial numbers.

Hello bob, Some pictures of your revolver would help, but from the information you gave it is most likely an original New Model Army. The small letters on the revolver are inspection marks. If the gun was accepted by the Ordnance Department there would have been the Principal sub-Inspectors ...

Hi John, Your revolver was manufactured in March of 1864.

Bill

Hello Hudd,
Your revolver was manufactured in January of 1864. If it has a cartouche on the left grip panel it was purchased by the Ordnance Department from Remington. Unfortunately there are no records of whom it was issued to.

Bill

Your revolver was made in March of 1864. You should be able to take the grip panels off fairly easy. Just remove the grip screw from the left side of the grips and the panels should come off. From your second picture it looks like there is a space between the toe of left grip and the frame where you ...