That is a Model 1905, 4th change. It probably had a 5in bbl and has been cut down. The 1905, 4th change was the direct predecessor to the revolver we know as the S&W M&P K-frame (and after 1958 or thereabouts, the Model 10) One can usually tell the 1905 4th, from the large knurled end of the ejector rod and the machined out recess in the bbl where it mates up w/ the ejector rod and usually had a square butt frame, rather than the round butt of the smaller I& J-frames.
Many of these were in .32-20 WCF as well as .32 S&W Long, but most prominently in .38 Spl. My Grandfather carried a 4" 1905 4th change in .32-20, along w/ a Marlin lever gun chambered in same, as a early 20th century(1927-1957 Lawman in rural Appalachia. I know the revolver well.
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