You will have to get it lettered by Colt to find out who it went to.
The earliest patent for a revolver was issued in 1818, for a flintlock revolver. There were other patents for revolvers, but the most significant was the Colt patent, which issued in England in 1835 and in the US in 1836. The specific thing that was patented was not the revolver, but a revolver designed in such a way that the cylinder was rotated and locked by the action of cocking the hammer.
200-3000 USD depending on the usuals.
S&W M10,13 and 15 M13 issued 1974-86
The Colt .45 was issued to the army after trials in 1873 and manufactured by the Colts manufacturing Company.
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Could be the issued officer's initials and badge number.
If, by officers, you are referring to the military then I would say such type revolvers were not so issued to the military. However, if referring to 'police' officers, then it was possible such weapons were issued to the poilice back in the 1920's......
1832.Samuel Colt first attempted to patent a revolver in the US in 1832. UK Patent #6909 was his first successful revolver patent: it was issued in 1835.1836Samuel Colt's first U. S. patent was patent No. 1304, dated August 29, 1836. This patent protected the basic design of his revolving-breech loading, folding trigger firearm named the Paterson pistol. Previous to his American patent he had been awarded a patent in England (1935) for the same design.1836Samuel Colt invented the first revolver, a gun named after its inventor "Colt", and after its revolving cylinder "revolver". In 1836, Samuel Colt was granted a U.S. patent for the Colt revolver, which was equipped with a revolving cylinder containing five or six bullets and an innovative cocking device.
S14-Russian/British 44 caliber revolver!!!
Standard Catalog of Smith and Wesson, 3rd edition, Supica and Nahas
While it does match the time period for the use of the Beaumont-Adams, multiple references in the books themselves are made to loading revolvers (both Watson’s and Holmes’ himself, both revolvers which are described similarly) with cartridges. As the Beaumont-Adams revolver was a black powder, percussion cap revolver, it would not accept cartridges. Possibly an error on the part of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, but it is also possible he was writing Watson as carrying the Enfield Mark 1 service revolver, issued from 1880 to 1887, which Watson may have come to losses at the very end of the war. Because the last year of the second Anglo-Afghan war and the first year of the adoption of the Enfield Mark 1 overlap, and because the book makes references to being loaded with cartridges instead If cap and ball, it is most likely that Dr. John Watson’s revolver is indeed an Enfield Mark 1.
The manufacture date is not ON the gun. And it is difficult if not impossible to determine. IMI issued serial numbers for different national customers, and it follows no standard pattern. Further, early production was prior to computer record keeping- the Uzi has been around a LONG time.