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A RARE AND UNUSUAL .44CF COLT "FLUCK" PRE-FIRST MODEL 1848 DRAGOON CONVERSION REVOLVER, NO. 2217 FOR 1848
The sighted part octagonal barrel marked ADDRESS SAML. COLT NEW.YORK CITY, frame marked COLTS/PATENT/U.S., cylinder (with traces of scene remaining) split through cross-section (two-piece conversion) just ahead of cylinder stops, hammer converted to center-fire, brass grip straps, walnut grips
7½ inch (19 cm.) barrel
This revolver was transformed to center-fire configuration in a practical, albiet unusual manner. The rear section of the split cylinder acts as the conversion plate, a peg locks the two sections together effectively making one cylinder the key, thus this is a five shot revolverb which uses an undetermined .44CF cartridge. To load the revolver it is necessary to disassemble it. Converted hammer (lacking it's conversion firing pin) works because the nipples are removed which allows the firing pin to strike the primer.
The so-called "Fluck" Pre-First Model Dragoon, derives its name from collector John J. Fluck who first noted this variant type. It is estimated that perhaps 300 were made. Dragoon revolvers of any type are rarely seen as conversions.
According to Texas Collector: Gaines de Graffenried, pages 137-38, Gaines de Graffenried acquired this revolver from a rancher in New Mexico whose father had found it on the Custer Battlefield on the Little Bighorn.
See also A Study of Colt Conversions and Other Percussion Revolvers pages 380, 388-89, for commentary on Dragoon conversions.
A similarly converted Dragoon, First Model serial no. 2704, appears in The William M. Locke Collection, page 49.
The sighted part octagonal barrel marked ADDRESS SAML. COLT NEW.YORK CITY, frame marked COLTS/PATENT/U.S., cylinder (with traces of scene remaining) split through cross-section (two-piece conversion) just ahead of cylinder stops, hammer converted to center-fire, brass grip straps, walnut grips
7½ inch (19 cm.) barrel
This revolver was transformed to center-fire configuration in a practical, albiet unusual manner. The rear section of the split cylinder acts as the conversion plate, a peg locks the two sections together effectively making one cylinder the key, thus this is a five shot revolverb which uses an undetermined .44CF cartridge. To load the revolver it is necessary to disassemble it. Converted hammer (lacking it's conversion firing pin) works because the nipples are removed which allows the firing pin to strike the primer.
The so-called "Fluck" Pre-First Model Dragoon, derives its name from collector John J. Fluck who first noted this variant type. It is estimated that perhaps 300 were made. Dragoon revolvers of any type are rarely seen as conversions.
According to Texas Collector: Gaines de Graffenried, pages 137-38, Gaines de Graffenried acquired this revolver from a rancher in New Mexico whose father had found it on the Custer Battlefield on the Little Bighorn.
See also A Study of Colt Conversions and Other Percussion Revolvers pages 380, 388-89, for commentary on Dragoon conversions.
A similarly converted Dragoon, First Model serial no. 2704, appears in The William M. Locke Collection, page 49.
Literature
Conger, Roger N., Texas Collector: Gaines de Graffenried, Texian Press, Waco, 1987, pages 137-38.
Sale room notice
Photograph on page 107 is of lots 202 and 203