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Details
A .36 COLT ROOT FIRST MODEL 1855 SPORTING CARBINE, NO. 721, CIRCA 1857
Part round/part octagonal barrel with cleaning rod mounted to left side, creeping loading lever, frame mounted with oiler, cylinder with engraved insciption B.F. Terry/8th Texas Cav. Regt. (added at a later date), trigger gaurd broken and repaired - now lacking spurs, replacement butt stock and butt plate
21 inch (53.4 cm.) barrel
Grey patina overall with areas of pitting, appears to have once been cleaned, engraving on cylinder not of Civil War period, replaced butt stock and butt plate
Part round/part octagonal barrel with cleaning rod mounted to left side, creeping loading lever, frame mounted with oiler, cylinder with engraved insciption B.F. Terry/8th Texas Cav. Regt. (added at a later date), trigger gaurd broken and repaired - now lacking spurs, replacement butt stock and butt plate
21 inch (53.4 cm.) barrel
Grey patina overall with areas of pitting, appears to have once been cleaned, engraving on cylinder not of Civil War period, replaced butt stock and butt plate
Literature
Conger, Roger N., Texas Collector: Gaines de Graffenried, Texian Press, Waco, 1987, pages 86-7.