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As reported in America's 1st Freedom magazine in July 2018, a Model 1847 Colt Walker pistol – the only known surviving example complete with its original case – was sold by Rock Island Auction for a record price of $1.84 million. This makes this the most expensive single firearm ever sold at auction.
The family of Colt Pocket Percussion Revolvers evolved from the earlier commercial revolvers marketed by the Patent Arms Manufacturing Company of Paterson, N.J. The smaller versions of Colt's first revolvers are also called "Baby Patersons" by collectors and were produced first in .28 to .31 caliber, and later in .36 caliber, by means of rebating the frame and adding a "step" to the cylinder ...
The Colt Walker was unsurpassed in power by any commercially-manufactured repeating handgun from its introduction in 1847 until the arrival of the .357 Magnum in 1935. Samuel Colt, with suggestions from Captain Samuel H. Walker, designed it as a "cap and ball" revolver to shoot both lead round balls and picket bullets. This was prior to the ...
The New Service revolver was available in other calibers such as .38 Special and, later in the 20th century, .45 ACP (as the M1917 revolver) and .357 Magnum. [ 48 ] Under a contract with the U.S. Army, Colt Arms built the Model 1895 ten-barrel variant of the Gatling Gun , capable of firing 800–900 .30 Army rounds per minute and used with ...
Colt Model 1871–72 Open Top (USA – revolver – 1871) Colt New Line (USA – revolver – 1873) Colt Open Top Pocket Model Revolver (USA – revolver – 1871) Colt Paterson (US – revolver – 1836) Colt Pocket Percussion Revolvers (USA – revolver) Baby Dragoon: 1847; Pocket Model of 1849: 1850; Pocket Navy and Pocket Police: 1861
January 4 – Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol, the Colt Walker, to the U.S. government for the Texas Rangers. January 13 – The Treaty of Cahuenga ends the fighting in the Mexican–American War in California. January 16 – John C. Fremont is appointed Governor of the new California Territory.
Colt Dragoon Revolver; Colt House Revolver; Colt King Cobra; Colt M1861 Navy; Colt M1877; Colt M1878; Colt M1889; Colt M1892; Colt Model 1855 Sidehammer Pocket Revolver; Colt Model 1871–72 Open Top; Colt Model 1905 Marine Corps; Colt New Line; Colt New Police Revolver; Colt New Service; Colt Officer's Model (revolver) Colt Official Police ...
Daniel Leavitt (November 16, 1813 – July 27, 1859) [a] was an early American inventor who, with his partner Edwin Wesson, patented the first revolver after Samuel Colt's, [2] and subsequently manufactured one of the first American revolving pistols. [3]