.44CF. 8" round barrel. SN: 195849 (mfg. ca. 1871). Blued and color casehardened finish, brass triggerguard, one-piece smooth walnut grip. Single action open top factory cartridge conversion revolver with loading gate and ejector rod, hammer nose notch rear sight and German silver blade front sight. Barrel with weak one-line New York address and frame with the "two-date in two-line" patent marking. Left rear web of triggerguard marked 44CAL. Matching numbers throughout except the barrel, which is #194546. This suggests either a customer of Colt's who had two guns of this pattern who inadvertently swapped the barrels, or possibly a Colt factory mismatch when guns were being altered to cartridge at the factory. The condition of the barrel matches the balance of the gun so well that it has almost certainly been with the frame since the period of use. Wedge unnumbered as is typical of this era, grip matches frame. Overall a much nicer condition example of a Richards Army conversion revolver than is normally encountered. From the Collection of Charles Worman, co-author of the two volume set Firearms of the American West. These were the real cowboy guns of the 1870s and early 1880s, as a cowboy was unlikely to able to afford a Single Action Army.