Original U.S. Civil War Whitney 2nd Model 3rd Type .31cal Pocket Percussion Revolver with 4" Barrel - Serial 14597 Sten Gun 下作 (GE SAKU or Lower

下作 (GE SAKU or Lower Work) = 良工の列 (Ryoko no Retsu or Good work)

and the harder steel rings themselves have worn into the fittings

These included passive measures on the base

we could be wrong and it might be genuine WW2 applied paint

Original U.S. Civil War Whitney 2nd Model 3rd Type .31cal Pocket Percussion Revolver with 4" Barrel - Serial 14597 Sten Gun 下作 (GE SAKU or LowerOriginal Item: Only One Available. Here is a very nice service used . 31 caliber percussion revolver with a fluted five shot cylinder made by the famous Eli Whitney company in New Haven, Connecticut. Designated the Whitney Pocket Model Revolver, this type revolver is a 31 caliber sidearm of which a total of 32,500 such handguns were produced at the Whitneyville Armory manufacturing center in the Whitneyville section of New Haven, Connecticut from 1859