Several more bits.
The gun is marked on the top barrel flat to Garden and Son, 200 Piccadilly, London. This company was a fancy leather goods and saddle maker and did not make any weapons. It was actually made in Birmingham, England by Harrington and Scott. The serial numbers (or assembly numbers) are struck inside the barrel channel on the stock and on the underside of the barrel.
I have a more extensive article in the works on this pistol, and whenever I can get the time (and motivation!) to finish it up and send it round to a publisher, I will post notice of it here if there's interest.
One thing I need is to go to Woolwich Arsenal in London to search out a few images of the period uniforms showing this gun being worn. I know they're there, but I need to get rights to use them!
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