Hi Joe,
Remington stamped the serial number on their Army and Navy revolvers in three places, under the barrel, on the left grip frame (must remove the left grip) and on the tab of the trigger guard (remove the trigger guard screw and pull down on the front of the trigger guard). Sometimes the one on the trigger guard tab is only a partial of the serial number. Depending on what the serial number is (15808 or 16808) the revolver was manufactured in either August or September of 1862. If the two numbers are different, one was probably a stamping mistake by the factory. If the trigger guard number matches one of the other numbers it is probably the real serial number of the revolver.
Hope this helps,
Bill
1863 (?) .36 Caliber Remington Navy Revolver
Re: 1863 (?) .36 Caliber Remington Navy Revolver
Joe,
It looks like a transition revolver between the Beals and the Elliot models. It has a Beals frame, the high hammer spur of the Beals model and I don’t see any safety notches on the back of the cylinder. Does it have the 1861 on the barrel address?
Bill
It looks like a transition revolver between the Beals and the Elliot models. It has a Beals frame, the high hammer spur of the Beals model and I don’t see any safety notches on the back of the cylinder. Does it have the 1861 on the barrel address?
Bill
Re: 1863 (?) .36 Caliber Remington Navy Revolver
That is the correct barrel address for an Elliot aka Old model aka Model 1861 revolver. The other identifying feature on which the patent was based is the slot between the loading lever and the bottom of the barrel which originally allowed the cylinder to be removed without lowering the loading lever by pulling the arbor pin forward. Your revolver probably has a fillister screw on the inside of the loading lever, which prevents the arbor pin from sliding forward unless the loading lever is lowered. The Ordinance Department complained that the arbor pin came unseated during use, which caused the cylinder to lock up rendering the revolver useless. The fillister screw prevented that from happening. The high hammer spur and the cylinder without safety notches are correct for the Elliot revolver. They were changed when the New Model was designed.
Bill
Bill
Re: 1863 (?) .36 Caliber Remington Navy Revolver
Joe,
Nothing I can think of. I just checked the National Park Service data base (http://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-soldiers.htm) for Civil War Soldiers with the name of W. Sloane. Twenty nine names came up of which there is one Wiley Sloane and twenty named William Sloane.
Enjoy your Christmas present,
Bill
Nothing I can think of. I just checked the National Park Service data base (http://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-soldiers.htm) for Civil War Soldiers with the name of W. Sloane. Twenty nine names came up of which there is one Wiley Sloane and twenty named William Sloane.
Enjoy your Christmas present,
Bill