Iver Johnson died of tuberculosis in 1895, and his sons took over the business.
Mossberg and Andrew Fyrberg, who would go on to invent the company's top-latching strap mechanism and the Hammer-the-Hammer transfer bar safety system used on the company's popular line of top-break safety revolvers. The company attracted a number of talented immigrant machinists and designers to its ranks, including O.F. The company's name changed again to Iver Johnson's Arms & Cycle Works in 1891, when the company relocated to Fitchburg, Massachusetts, (sometimes incorrectly referred to as "Fitzburg") in order to have better and larger manufacturing facilities. The company's name changed to Iver Johnson & Company in 1883, upon Johnson's purchase of Bye's interest, but Bye continued working in the firearm industry for the remainder of his life. Their primary revenues came from the sale of their self designed and manufactured inexpensive models of revolvers. Beginning in 1876, Johnson and Bye filed jointly for, and received, multiple new firearms features and firearms feature improvement patents. In 1871, Johnson merged his and Martin Bye's gunsmithing operations to form the Johnson Bye & Company. On April 9, 1868, Johnson married Mary Elizabeth ( née Speirs, born January 1847) in Worcester and the couple had three sons, Frederick Iver, John Lovell and Walter Olof, and two daughters, Mary Louise and Nellie. Seeking new and creative uses for his partially idle manufacturing equipment after the American Civil War, he worked not only gunsmithing locally in Fitchburg, but also providing designs and work to other firearms companies notably making pepper-box pistols for Allen & Wheelock. Johnson emigrated from Norway to Worcester, Massachusetts, United States in 1863, and continued his work as a gunsmith by trade and an inventor in his spare time. He was educated as a gunsmith in Bergen in 1857, and had a gun store in Oslo. Iver Johnson was born in 1841 in Nordfjord, Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. Now might be a good time to get into Re-loading.Iver Johnson revolver advertisement, pre-1907 Your gun is a hammerless 2nd model Iver Johnson Safety Automatic.with the safety in the trigger.looks like you have 3rd model grips.It is for Black Powder only.Stick with the Cowboy Loads.Any modern 38 S&W still in production should be for 'Cowboy Action" shooting.therefore the Black Powder pressures will be maintained, even if its not black powder.and therefore safe to shoot.If your revolver is in safe mechanical condition it can be shot with new factory smokeless ammunition.but get a gunsmith to go over it before firing.we wouldn't want anything to happen to you. 38 Short Colt ammunition is dificult to find, and more expensive then. 38 S&W, but I don't believe it's been manufactured since World War Two 38 S&W revolver, but it is possible the case could rupture in the oversized chamber. It is unlikely anything serious would happen if you fired a. 38 Short Colt in revolvers chambered for. 38 S&W has an entirely different set of dimensions: ( Rim =. 357 Magnum share a common case and rim diameter (rim =. If your gun was made for 38 S&W you can also shoot 38 short colt but it it is a short colt gun you cannot shoot the S&W cartrage in it.
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