.36 caliber. 7.375" octagonal barrel. SN: 11490. Originally blued and color casehardened finish with brass triggerguard and smooth two-piece walnut grips. Single action percussion revolver with six-chambered unfluted cylinder, frame notch rear sight and dovetailed German silver cone front sight. Barerl with weak two-line Beals' patent marking and Remington address. Matching serial numbers on left of frame under grips and under barrel. Cylinder is unnumbered, which is not uncommon for these revolvers. No sub-inspection marks are present in the metal. Left grip with a weak and not fully legible cartouche that does not appear to be the script CGC of Charles G. Chapman, the only Ordnance Department inspector to view US contract Beals Navy Revolvers. Only about 14,500 Beals' Navy revolvers were produced by Remington circa 1861-1862 of which about 1,400-1,500 were acquired by the US Army and Navy, with the balance being sold commercially. Some of those commercial guns saw military service as well.

[CIVIL WAR][MILITARIA][ANTIQUE FIREARMS][REVOLVER]

Good. Bore about good, moderately oxidized with some pitting but retaining decent rifling. Metal with an old applied chemical brown "patina" with weak barrel markings. Hammer spur broken and repaired with the profile being that of the shorter hammer spur found on the Remington M1861 Elliot and M1863 New Model Navy revolvers, not the tall Beals pattern spur. Cylinder correctly without safety notches on the rear edge. Mechanically functional action. Grips with moderate wear, lightly sanded and with a large surface chip out of the trailing edge of the left grip. Otherwise with scattered bumps, dings and mars.