Very fine. Bore good, showing moderate oxidation and pitting with a couple of patches of more severe pitting and strong rifling. Metal with most of the original nickel finish intact with some small areas of flaking, as well as a couple of areas of surface oxidation and slightly more obvious finish loss. In there is one particular fingernail sized patch on the top of the barrel at about the middle of the patent markings and at one cylinder flute where there are also a couple of impact marks. There is some flaking from the front sight blade as well. Hammer with some traces of faded case color, trigger with some blue. Mechanically functional action that times, indexes and locks up well, but has no closure suction. Grips with some light wear and minor handling marks.

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