Did Winchester make any production black powder revolvers?

I'd guess its mislabeled. Winchester made some experimental cartridge revolvers in the 1870's or '80's, but no percussion guns that I recall.

The gun in the picture looks like a Rogers and Spencer reproduction. They've been made in Italy and imported by one or more companies into the States.

The fitted Styrofoam box kinda gives it away as a modern reproduction. Still, for $225 it would be an interesting shooter - if in good condition. A cap-n-ball revolver can be a lot of fun. I suspect the silver colored one is nickel plated and NOT stainless.

Howdy

Winchester never manufactured any revolvers. Never. Not percussion, not cartridge. But they did come up with some prototypes to scare the pants off of Colt.

In 1883 Colt brought out the Burgess rifle. It was a lever action rifle and was seen as a direct competitor to Winchester's line of rifles. So Winchester hired William Mason, who had perfected the Colt Single Action Army, to design a revolver in 1883. The top revolver in this photo is what he came up with. The bottom revolver is attributed to former S&W designer William Wetmore.



Winchester also commissioned a couple of other prototypes from other designers. Winchester let it be known that they were ready to go head to head with Colt with revolver manufacture. The Burgess rifle was only produced until 1885, and Winchester never manufactured any revolvers other than the prototypes.

The revolver you are looking at is mislabeled.

One of the designers of a DA revolver was Winchester employee Hugo Borchardt. A previous employee of Sharps, Borchardt left Winchester then tried to interest Colt in his automatic pistol design. He then went back to his native Germany, where his design was perfected by Georg Luger to become the P-08.

Bob Wright

Rogers & Spencer (Utica, New York) replica. Maybe the markings are not too sharp and were misread.

http://www.euroarms.net/euroarms_netroger_file/roger_spencer.htm

I would jump on it if the barrel was OK.

Let us know what turns out .