I highly recommend Pate's book for the serious student of those guns. Most I have seen had the original color case hardened hammer and trigger, and blued ejector rod. I will post some pictures of boxes in the A.M., but they are taken out of Charles Pate's book. I've had several but now I'm down to one (the best I ever seen) and it's staying in my collection.
FTR stands for Factory Thorough Repair, and those guns, as the FTR implies were completely disassembled, repaired as required, and refinished in what Pate describes as sandblast "Black Magic" (Parkerized) prior to being shipped back to the U.S.
What looks like the number 8 is actually an ordnance bomb symbol. 5inch barrel,parkerized,smooth walnut.Bottom butt-380545.Left top strap-a symbol that looks like #8,U.S.Property GHD.Next to MADE IN U.S.A.marking D^D
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