The barrel markings are done with the same stamp as used on gun #215 which is a one piece stamp in one line as follows:
Schneider & Glassick, Memphis, Tenn.
W. H. CALHOUN
#225 W. H. Calhoun was a fancy goods merchant in Nashville, Tennessee during and well before the Civil War. Fancy goods merchants sold jewelry, watches, and guns which sort of fitted together in those days and times. Calhoun never made guns himself as far as I know and was not a gunsmith. This is a genuine Henry Deringer gun surcharged or marked with the agent’s name on the barrel. This gun has typical Henry Deringer characteristics such as German silver furniture and a pineapple finial on the trigger plate. The stock is made without ramrod. The caliber is .370.
The barrel markings are in four lines on the top flat and appear to be marked each line individually as follows:
Mand for
W. H. Calhoun
Agent,
Nashville, Tenn.
DANIEL L. SWETT & CO.
#282 L. Swett was a dealer of guns and general merchandise in Vicksburg, Mississippi and as far as I know never made guns himself. The guns that I have seen by this maker were all Henry Deringer agent marked guns. This speciment is very typical of a genuine Henry Deringer such as with ramrod, German silver furniture, and pineapple finial on the trigger plate.