The serial number ranges don’t go lower than a “G” and all of these guns were beefed up to take smokeless powder rounds. The Third Model used coil springs rather than the flat springs of the first two models. These Second Model Hammerless variants have a manual safety on the trigger, which makes them easy to spot while Gaston Glock is silent on this trigger design. Note the pre-Glock trigger safety.Ī ‘hammerless’ version with a distinctive humpbacked shrouded frame was also made in this version. Iver Johnson Safety Automatic, the second hammerless model. On the top of the barrel rib there is a serial number, which usually doesn’t begins with a letter code but sometimes does. The first run of guns were all designed and built for low-pressure black powder cartridges. These guns use a single top latch to hold the revolver together, a simple design which boasts four patent dates listed on the barrel with the last one being ’93. Some 250,000 First Model Iver Johnson Safety Automatics were made from 1894-96, a significant and brief production life if there ever was one. In short, they were the Kahr of the 1900s.
A nice, safe, and (for the time) relatively powerful handgun with a fast reload for a price that almost anyone could afford made it a hit for the company. When introduced Safety Automatics retailed for $6, which in todays money is about $150. With so many options you could buy a small concealable revolver for discreet carry or hiding in a cash drawer, or a larger piece for home defense.
These guns were sold in both a small frame version with a three to six inch barrel in 22LR (7-shot) or 32S&W (5-shot), and a large frame 38S&W version that came in barrel lengths as short as 2-inches. Then you risked an accidental discharge from a dropped revolver if the gun was carried with a hammer down on a loaded cylinder, which as you may imagine, was a real concern at the time. Without the transfer bar in place, which would only occur when the trigger was pulled, the gun would not fire
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