Lot 279
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A FINE AND RARE COLT 1860 MODEL ARMY PERCUSSION REVOLVER, No. 187300/E for 1870, engraved with rare Henry Leaf style scroll, on the barrel, cylinder (line and dot trim to roll engraved scene), frame, hammer (wolf head), wedge, grip-strap and trigger-guard, figured walnut grips, three-screw frame (classifying the revolver as a civilian Model Army), matching numbers, and nearly all its original full nickel-plated finish: in American varnished mahogany case lined in maroon velvet with accessories including stand of arms flask and box of cartridges, and in excellent condition throughout

Details
A FINE AND RARE COLT 1860 MODEL ARMY PERCUSSION REVOLVER, No. 187300/E for 1870, engraved with rare Henry Leaf style scroll, on the barrel, cylinder (line and dot trim to roll engraved scene), frame, hammer (wolf head), wedge, grip-strap and trigger-guard, figured walnut grips, three-screw frame (classifying the revolver as a civilian Model Army), matching numbers, and nearly all its original full nickel-plated finish: in American varnished mahogany case lined in maroon velvet with accessories including stand of arms flask and box of cartridges, and in excellent condition throughout
13¾in.
Provenance
Jerry D. Berger
Literature
Antique Arms Annual, 1971, p. 15 (colour)
R.L. Wilson, The Book of Colt Engraving, p. 156
Colt Engraving, p. 183

Lot Essay

This pistol was not shipped until April 10, 1877, along with 69 other Colt Armys, to the prime New York City jobbers and dealers, Schuyler, Hartley & Graham. The very few other pistols from this shipment to have come to light all have similar scroll decoration (as used on only a few hundred pistols within the span of a few months in the year 1870), some with blue and some with full nickel finish. For further information on the Heavy Leaf Scroll, see R.L. Wilson, The Book of Colt Engraving, and Colt Engraving, each chapter IV
The Heavy Scroll is one of the least observed of all types of Colt engraving

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