This is an example of approximately 10,000 revolvers of this type built using a mix of converted on-hand parts from the Model 1849 Pocket, 1862 Police, and Pocket Navy revolvers along with newly manufactured components starting around 1873. These handy revolvers were still being shipped by the factory in the 1880s, and were incredibly popular in both the urban centers of the east as well as on the western frontier due to their portable and concealable firepower. It has the standard markings and features, including matching serial numbers with the exception of the wedge which is numbered "9628." The back strap is inscribed "Dr. Edmund G. Waters." Per his obituary in The Sun from Baltimore, Maryland, on February 21, 1909: "Dr. Edmund G. Waters, 79 years old, 1711 Madison avenue, died Friday at the Union Protestant Infirmary. He was the son of Dr. Francis Waters, of the Methodist Protestant Church, and was born in this city. Dr. Waters studied in the office of Dr. Nathan R. Smith, and was graduated from the University of Maryland in the medical class of 1853. He married the daughter of Dr. William Hitch, and he first had an office on Hollins street...When the Civil War broke out Dr. Waters was appointed assistant surgeon at the Camden Hospital, and served there and at Jarvis. He afterward became professor of chemistry, natural philosophy and physiology at the Baltimore High School, remaining there until he moved to Dorchester county, near Cambridge, in 1868. In 1882 he returned, and again engaged in private practice until the breaking of his leg incapacitated him from active work."