A FINE FACTORY-ENGRAVED COLT .44-40 'FRONTIER SIX SHOOTER' REVOLVER, No. 326937, factory engraved and finished, the frame, barrel and cylinder engraved with bold foliate-scrolls, punchmarks, serpentine borderwork and star bursts, the frame with much colour-hardened finish, the cylinder and barrel with traces of the original blueing, the mother-of-pearl grips with deeply-impressed Colt medallions

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A FINE FACTORY-ENGRAVED COLT .44-40 'FRONTIER SIX SHOOTER' REVOLVER, No. 326937, factory engraved and finished, the frame, barrel and cylinder engraved with bold foliate-scrolls, punchmarks, serpentine borderwork and star bursts, the frame with much colour-hardened finish, the cylinder and barrel with traces of the original blueing, the mother-of-pearl grips with deeply-impressed Colt medallions
4¾in. barrel, proof exemption
In its tooled leather holster, the buckle stamped 'H. H. Heiser, Maker, Denver, Colo.'; and a pair of tooled leather and silver-inlaid spurs, stamped 'Pat'd' and 'Hand Forged'

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The Colt archive have kindly supplied the following information regarding this revolver:- 4¾in. barrel
.44-40
pearl stocks
blued finish and colour
engraved
left factory July 15 1913
supplied to Guy Ford

Larry Wilson, in his books 'Colt An American Legend' and 'The Book of Colt Engraving', has identified a series of revolvers, of which No. 326937 is a particularly good example, as having been engraved by Helfricht