Your "pre -model 10"
would have been called back in its day "the military and police model of 1905."
It was part of a family of revolvers all with common heritage called the "hand ejector" series which dates back to 1899 I think --- all solid frame revolvers with swing out cylinders and a double action/single action trigger mechanism.
Real gun experts and collectors would further add the phrase "fourth change" -- meaning it has a modern lockwork system that dates to around World War I and has been used through the late 1990s I think (when they stopped putting the firing pin on the hammer nose).
would have been called back in its day "the military and police model of 1905."
It was part of a family of revolvers all with common heritage called the "hand ejector" series which dates back to 1899 I think --- all solid frame revolvers with swing out cylinders and a double action/single action trigger mechanism.
Real gun experts and collectors would further add the phrase "fourth change" -- meaning it has a modern lockwork system that dates to around World War I and has been used through the late 1990s I think (when they stopped putting the firing pin on the hammer nose).
