This little gem is a first year production(1847) Baby Dragoon and would be considered a very nice Gold Rush pistol  but there’s more to it.  The backstrap is inscribed " J.S.Harris  MD."  and I’ve got archive Doc. listing him as a Confederate Officer and Surgeon.  The pistol itself is in fine shape with most of it’s cyl. scene intact and all matching serial numbers. The grips are really nice with no chips and that wonderful butt slant that only the very early ones had.  I don’t know if Dr. Harris was involved in the Gold Rush  but he was a Civil War Confederate Surgeon and that qualifies this as one of the rarest civil war pistols for sale today.  A really great addition to any collection.
New Information:
I just did a little homework and found a ‘J.S Harris Surgeon’ with the 59th Ga. Infantry in Col. Brown’s Div.  He participated in some of the bloodiest battles of the war including "Drewry’s Bluff, Fredericksburg, Chickamauga, Franklin and Petersburg . I don’t know of another Confederate surgeon’s pistol ever being on the market for sale.  A truly one of a kind piece of history.
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