I love gun researching. A buddy of mine from work showed me an old pistol that his Dad gave him. I took a bunch of pictures and looked it up. Turns out he has about $2000 dollars worth of classic on his hands:
It's a Colt DA .38
That’s a real nice starter for a youngster. I still have Grandpa’s (Dad’s Pop) 10ga break-action, which I shot at 8-9, and it knocked me on my ass. Shoulder was sore for a week. Blew the poor pigeon to smithereens, but Grandpa hunted daily with it during the Depression to put food on the family’s table.
No one can figure out what mfgr it is. There’s a logo emblem on the buttplate, but their and my research turns-up zilch.
Old guns like that, there were lots of mfgrs out of business now.
If you get a chance take a pic of the emblem and post it but there should be some kind of mark on the barrel too.
Take the barrel off and look in the break area too.