Strange that you should post this picture and certainly am not an expert but recently acquired a piece similar to this one and it is a Forehand&Wasdsworth. Look along top of the barrel rib and well as the bottom of the butt grip. Mine information was hard to read, does list a S/N but no caliber. I Understand that the configuration of the trigger guard is a Smith design which other copied. Finally figured out that it is a .38-S&W. If you can, pull the grips and see what type of hammer spring, it has. …….Any idea what this is?
As I replied previously, mine has no caliber markings, that I can find. I took a .38 SPL and inserted it until it bottomed out and was unable to insert it completely. The diameter was right on, for a .38. I read that these were either .32 or 38-S&W. Also read that these were the CCW's of their time. That is why see mostly short barrels, nickeled and DA or bobbed hammers. Some were issued to LEO's and Military. ……so I was thinking .38
Remember that about the easiest thing to modify is the grips. Don't use the grips to determine black or smokeless powder rather look at the cylinder stops. The smokeless powder models will have a positive cylinder stop, the small rectangular slot.Howdy
It is not an Iver Johnson.
Iver Johnsons had a little owl on the grips.
The little owl faced forward on the older Black Powder Iver Johnsons.
The little owl faced backwards on the later Smokeless models.