"Flayderman's Guide to Antique American Firearms...and their Values" is available in many bookstores, and should be consulted for a *general* idea of value. It has a small section on the Leech & Rigdon.

Harder to find is "Confederate Arms" by Albaugh and Simmons but this book will give you more indepth info. Even more indepth is "Confederate Revolvers" by the same authors.

Do not buy this gun without knowing what you are buying! Confederate revolvers are highly prone to being fakes!

If it indeed was made in 1865, I don't think it possible to be a Leech & Rigdon. Instead, it would be a Rigdon-Ansley or a Leech & Co. revolver as production of the L&R is thought to have stopped during 1864 and the R-A and the Leech & Co. revolver production started sometime thereafter (R-A partnership documents were signed on Jan. 1, 1864.). Both the the R-A revolvers were basically continuations of the L&R, but there are differences between them. One difference is that the R-A has 12 stops, where the L&R did not. Leech & Co. revolvers looked like basically like the L&R, but is more crudely made.

Of note is that serial numbers 1200-1500 are stamped "Leech & Rigdon" but were actually made by R-A. It was after #1500 was built that the R-A revolvers went into production. Serial numbers are continuation of the old L&R serial numbers. Serial numbers run at least as high as the 2300's.