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Out in these parts, rough shape just means that it was somebody's favorite gun. I'm not an H&A expert, but I would say that yours is an 822 (the 922 had a round barrel). The 822 was made from the mid 1890s until around 1915.
H&A, along with Harrington & Richardson and Iver Johnson, made a ton of small caliber rifles and revolvers around the turn of the century. Farmers especially went after the rifles as an inexpensive means to control varmints. The revolvers were, for the most part, also inexpensive and made to easily fit in a pocket for self defense, back in the day when it wasn't uncommon for a fella to pack a little heat around town, just in case.
You don't see a lot of them around anymore, primarily because they got so much use that they just wore out.
As bop said, it's certainly a keeper.
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