Mike, so glad you are feeling better and are now at home.
I have your gun in my records, don't know where I got it from but early on I didn't put much information down, now I do. It states that there was a hammer gun barrel fit to it serial number 10827 ( a very early hammer gun from 1884)
LLoyd, it is going to look like any other Syracuse L.C. Smith made from 1886-and part of 1889, it will have the round breech balls, large convex ribs, lock plate connecting screw with a rounded head and a squared lug going through the receiver.
I explained why your gun was called a Transition gun, because some parts were from Syracuse but the frame was made in Fulton after they made molds with the rounded log.
