This Confederate Dragoon style revolver was manufactured by J.H. Dance & Brothers of Columbia, Texas, c. 1864 and is one of an estimated 275-300 .44 caliber revolvers Dance & Brothers manufactured during the Civil War. The revolver is pictured and described in Gary Wiggins' "Dance & Brothers, Texas Gunmakers of the Confederacy" on pages 104-105. Wiggins describes the revolver as "an extremely fine example of the standard Dance & Brothers six-shot revolver" that is still loaded. Three of the six cylinder chambers are period loaded. This revolver has the distinctive flat frame with no recoil shields, part-octagon barrel and nickel-silver front sight blade. The hammer spur is not knurled. The six-shot cylinder has rectangular stops. There are no safety pins in the rear face of the percussion cylinder. The revolver has a thick oval brass trigger guard and brass back strap. The one-piece grip is nicely figured walnut with a high polish finish. The revolver is not serial numbered but is stamped with a diamond with "O" on either side, the left side of the loading lever, bottom of the barrel lug, bottom of the frame, trigger guard, back strap and the left side of the hammer. All of the visible marks appear to be identical and matching. There are no other external markings on the revolver.