Lot Essay
Elisha Haydon Collier was an American engineer. He patented his revolving system in London on 24 November 1818, no. 4315, thus anticipating Samuel Colt's first patent by seventeen years
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BY E.H. COLLIER, NO. 64, CIRCA 1824
Details
A RARE .46 AMERICAN COLLIER PATENT FIVE-SHOT FLINTLOCK REVOLVER
By E.H. Collier, No. 64, circa 1824
With sighted twist barrel signed on the rib, fluted cylinder, signed engraved detented lock (top jaw and screw replaced), engraved top-strap and priming magazine, the latter inscribed 'E.H. Collier Patent', engraved cylinder-sleeve and flash-guard, chequered figured walnut butt, engraved trigger-guard, silver escutcheon, silver star on the left side, and original brass-mounted ramrod
13¾in.
By E.H. Collier, No. 64, circa 1824
With sighted twist barrel signed on the rib, fluted cylinder, signed engraved detented lock (top jaw and screw replaced), engraved top-strap and priming magazine, the latter inscribed 'E.H. Collier Patent', engraved cylinder-sleeve and flash-guard, chequered figured walnut butt, engraved trigger-guard, silver escutcheon, silver star on the left side, and original brass-mounted ramrod
13¾in.
Provenance
Romaine Fielding
F. Theodore Dexter
Frank E. Bivens, Jr.
F. Theodore Dexter
Frank E. Bivens, Jr.
Literature
Russell Barnett Aitken, 'Six Shooters Before Colt', True Magazine, January 1963, p. 50 (illustrated)