Old revolver

[redrumten]

Can anyone help ID an old pistol? It's a .38 that breaks downward at the cylinder to load. I can't read the manufacturer, but it includes the words "Bicycle Co." on the barrel.

I don't have any pictures at this time.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give.
GT

 

[Old Fuff]

Wiith so little information and no pictures I can't come close to any identification, but it could be: Iver Johnson Arms & Cycle Works - Fitchburg, Mass. USA.

 

[lee n. field]

Not much help yet. Googleing on "Bicycle Co. revolver" gets me stuff about bicycle wheel hubs.

Nothing in my Standard Catalog of Firearms.

Probably a turn of the last century Saturday Night Special.

 

[Smith357]

It could be the markings are a unit label. There were Bicycle companies in many armies during the Great War.

 

[49hudson]

Iver Johnson began as a company named Johnson & Bye.
Bye sold his interest to Johnson in 1883.
It was then called Iver Johnson Arms and Cycle works. They made cheap guns, bicycles and roller skates.
I believe you have a 38 S&W revolver.
They made both hammer and hammerless models.
This is the only revolver that had [cycle co.] stamped on the frame or barrel as far as I know.

 

[redrumten]

Here are a couple of pics

 

[SaxonPig]

Don't try to shoot it. Worth $50-$100 as a collectable.

 

[JohnBT]

"1890 - Company moved to Fitchburg, Massachusetts; Owl's head first appeared on revolver grips
1894 - Company became Iver Johnson's Arms & Cycle Works, purchased bicycle shop in Fitchburg and opened first retail sporting goods store"

- www2.arkansas.net/~sws1/ijfaq001.htm