The Rogers and Spencer Company received a U.S. contract for 5,000 revolvers in November 1864. This one is serial numbered 407 and falls well within the 1,500 delivered to the government by April 1865 and qualifying as wartime manufacture, though none appear to have been issued. The company had produced the Pettingill revolver in the 1850s and early 1860s. This seems to have been a design based on the Freeman revolver, patented in 1862 and made by the Hoard Armory in Watertown, NY.

This one shows the correct company markings on the top of the frame: ROGERS & SPENCER / UTICA. N-Y. It has a good amount of original blue showing on the left frame, smaller amounts on the right, and good blue on the cylinder. The loading assembly shows some thin case color. The barrel and top of the frame show gray metal, mixed with some brown, and shallow pitting. The wood grips have good color, just minor wear and a few nicks to the lower edge, and a crisp inspector’s cartouche on the left. The buttstrap shows some blue. The wood and metal show various single-letter subinspector stamps. The wood to metal fit is good.  [sr]

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