Included in this lot is a Smith & Wesson .44 double action First Model revolver. Smith & Wesson’s First Model DA incorporates the company’s familiar curved grip frame, flanked by checkered walnut grip panels. The revolver was available in blue and nickel-plated finishes, and barrels were 4, 5, 6, 6½ and 8 inches in length, with 5 inches being the most common. This revolver shows a patina’d nickel finish on the 5” barrel, frame and six shot cylinder. This firearm is chambered for a .44 caliber, presumably .44 Russian or S&W. The walnut grips are very worn and only show patches of the original factory checkering. Even though the .44 Double Action was not one of S&W’s most popular products, it still had a following. In fact, Texas gunfighter and all-around bad guy John Wesley Hardin was carrying a .44 S&W Frontier when he was killed in the Acme Saloon by Constable John Selman in El Paso in 1895. Ironically, when Selman was killed a year later by George Scarborough, also in El Paso, he was toting a .44 New Model. All frames were made prior to 1899. Serial Number: 11365. This firearm qualifies as an Antique, and does not require FFL Transfer or NICS Background Check.