Lovely piece. The early guns, like the one pictured, had the bell-shaped breech end of the barrels to fit the frame.
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A family member had one of these with the bell-shaped barrel breech ends marked "Quail Hammerless" that I used some in my high school and college days. His father bought him the gun new shortly after WW-I. His Father;s brother, a gunsmith in Seattle bored it out for 3-inch shells in the late 1930s. Morrie's house was broken into and it was stolen along with his GHE-Grade Parker and his Model 70 .257 Roberts.
In the early 1930s, after H & D Folsom Arms Co. sold their Crescent Fire Arms Co. to J. Stevens Arms Co. and Stevens combined it with their recently acquired Davis Warner Arms Corp. as Crescent - Davis Arms Corporation, Norwich, Conn. the barrels were heavier with straight walls at the breech. I have one of these that is marked "New Empire"
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