New Army was sold at Little John's Auctions in 2006. I don't know when the New Army was tested, but it must have been approved on some level because a U.S. Ordinance trials in 1974 when that Model was tested against the Colt SAA and the Schofield, both of which had been previously tested and adopted by the Ordinance Department. F&W produced the New Army to incorporate modifications to the earlier Old Army model in response to tests of the U.S. If anyone had heard/seen anything else, or knows anyone who collects these then please let me know. David Chicoine doesn't list this revolver in his Gunsmithing Guns of the Old West book but has something in American Gunsmithing on the preceding Old Model Army that I may have to buy. There's a pub over at Cornell Publishing on the F&H company but apparently only 4 pages are devoted to the large frame revolvers - not enough to warrant the $20 price. You read in a bunch of places on the web "less than 1000 made" but I don't know where that comes from. Serial number is on 9 parts - grip frame butt, both wood grips (counted as only 1), side plate, loading gate, hammer, trigger, trigger guard, cylinder, cylinder arbor (the rod that the cylinder turns on) - I'm sure it's on the barrel too but hidden by the frame which would make 10 parts! I think Merwins only have 9 parts marked. You don't see one of these every day - very nicely made large frame revolver - 44 Russian caliber - at least as well-built as Colt, S&W. Here are the current Blue Book values for your gun: Exc.I know this isn't a S&W but I need help finding out more about it and there isn't a forum for this gun. GOOSE GUNS - outside hammer, 8, 10, or 12 ga., were offered with barrels up to 40 inches long. or Hopkins & Allen ever made the switch to smokeless powder it would be best not to fire this shotgun with modern ammo.
due to the fact that there is no indication that Forehand & Wadsworth, Forehand Arms Co. 16, 1881 patent date is for patent 245620 which is actually for a side hammer single barrel shotgun (it was issued to S. After Wadsworth's retirement, Forehand continued to sell guns marked with the F&W name and this was the case also when H&A took over. About 1899/1900 Forehand passed away and the company was sold to Hopkins & Allen. Wadsworth retired in about 1890 and the company was re-named Forehand Arms Co. Forehand and Wadsworth were his son-in-laws. Forehand & Wadsworth (1871-1890) was formed out of the the last of Ethan Allen companies when he died. And the way you described it, it is a single barrel side hammer shotgun.
This sounds more like a shotgun than a rifle.
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