A Fine Rogers & Spencer
A .44 Rogers & Spencer Army Model Six-Shot Percussion Revolver, No. 3660, Circa 1865. With blued octagonal sighted barrel, blued serial numbered cylinder and frame, the latter with grooved top-strap stamped Rogers & Spencer Utica N.Y. hinged case-hardened rammer, flared rounded grips with inspectors mark and military issue cartouche, retaining most of its original finish, in very good condition overall.
U.S. Ordnance contract for 5,000Nov. 1865. No records indicate issuance of the gun. In 1901, military goods dealers Francis Bannerman, N.Y. acquired almost the entire lot of them at Government sale, offering them to collectors through their catalogues over the next few years.
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