This early production S&W No.2 Lever Action Repeating pistol with deluxe finish is pictured on page 28 of "VOLCANIC FIREARMS" by Edmund Lewis and Stephen Rutter. The pistol has deluxe scroll and floral engraving on the top and sides of the barrel flats, sides and top of the frame, side plates, back strap, butt and top of the hammer. The left side plate is engraved with a shield surrounded by scrollwork and the right side plate is engraved with a cherub and urn. A harp and a scroll are engraved on the sides of the receiver ahead of the side plates. The back strap and sides of the receiver have gold inlaid scrollwork and line borders. The top barrel flat is inlaid with a gold band. The entire pistol is silver-plated with the exception of the rear sight which is gold-plated. The two-piece rosewood grips are silver-mounted with engraved silver caps at the junction with the frame and engraved silver screw escutcheons. This No. 2, Type II, pistol has a frame with prominent hump behind the trigger and eight-inch part-round/part-octagon barrel with integral ten-shot magazine. The barrel has a crowned muzzle, rounded T-bar spring, brass pinch-top front sight and steel, clam-shell magazine follower. The top barrel flat is roll-stamped: "SMITH & WESSON/PATENT/FEB. 14. 1854" in three lines. The frame has a simple dove-tail mounted rear sight, election port with square front and rear ends and single lever-spring screw. The hammer has fine, hand-cut, knurling on the spur. The loading lever has the distinctive finger hole but lacks the finger spur found on the earliest No. 2 pistols. The serial number, "81", is stamped on the left side of the butt beneath the grips. This pistol was most likely custom-engraved and gold inlaid as a display or presentation piece and may well be the most heavily decorated Volcanic pistol extant.