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The history of the U.S. Revolver Co. is interesting. When Iver Johnson developed its Third Model Safety topbreak revolver in 1909, it had a lot of parts left over from the older Second Model. To use up those parts, IJ established the United States Revolver Co., which continued to produce what amounted to the IJ Safety Second Model, but without the IJ transfer bar, which IJ wanted to keep exclusive to its Iver Johnson line. The U.S. line proved so popular that IJ continue to make it long after the old parts were used up. U.S. revolvers were not sold through IJ's own distributors but only through mail order houses.
Concurrently, IJ also marketed a version of its solid frame Model 1900 as a U.S. product, also through the mail order route. The solid frames, regardless of name, never had the transfer bar.
Jim
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