Single top latch, 100000 were produced in 1894, serial number without letter prefix, marked on the top of the barrel rib: IVER JOHNSONS ARMS & CYCLE WORKS. This why when looking for a year questions arise such as, which way is the owl looking, coil or flat main spring and single or double post.:) Enough to make a sober man drink, or a drunk man sober. Owl is looking to the barrel, cylinder is free wheeling when at rest, for black powder cartridges. Apparently Iver Johnson used batch numbers and even that does not appear to be a consistent practice in their hundred years of production. Most Iver Johnsons small frame top-breaks in.
IVER JOHNSON 32 S&W SERIAL NUMBERS SERIAL NUMBERS
Small Frame Hammerless serial numbers begin, 1896 B0001 and end in 1902 at B100000. About Serial Johnson 1900 Model Iver NumbersThere are also older generation H&R revolvers in 32 S&W with shrouded or bobbed hammers, many of which are pull-pin. Johnson’s serial numbers consisted of a variety of different formats over the years, including all numbers, numbers with a letter (or two) as a prefix and even all letters. the A prefix was used in 18 and once again in 1909 until 1914 on the Small Frame Hammer. Between 19, Iver Johnson known for their inexpensive handguns made a shotgun they named Champion. B Prefix was used in 1896 until 1902 and again in 1909 until 1918 on the Small Frame Hammerless. Now, you are getting me confused, ( which is not hard to do).
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