From mid-1861 until the latter part of 1863, Colt supplied the Union Army with over 127,000 of the Model 1860, at which time the Remington New Model became the pistol of choice, primarily down to ...

Today’s percussion revolver shooters will, in the main, choose either a .36 calibre Navy size pistol or its larger cousin the .44 Army model. Back in the 19th Century a number of manufacturers catered ...

The Colt Model 1860 army revolver was manufactured from 1860 through 1873. The total production consisted of more than 200,000. The six-shot, .44-caliber revolver was the primary handgun used by Union ...

Check it out on gunandswordcollector.com. Additional Reading: The Guns of Manassas, 1861 The Guns of Gettysburg Colt 1860 Army Richards "Cartridge Conversion" Revolver ...

The Army purchased 128,057 of these revolvers through contracts with Colt and obtained a few thousand others through other means. So they are not rare but, nonetheless, they are still good ...

Starting: $400 .44 caliber, 8″ barrel, S/N 82563 (ca. 1862). Visible numbers matching. Blued finish with smooth one-piece walnut grip. Six-shot cylinder with naval scene. Barrel marked with one-line ...

Years later, Samuel Colt would memorialize the battle and the Texas Navy on his 1851 and 1861 Colt Navy Revolvers and the Colt 1860 Army Revolver, as a thank you to the Republic of Texas Navy for ...

Schreier estimated that a Colt Model 1860 Army Revolver in as good a condition as Ferguson's would fetch about $3,500 on a really strong day, and the box would bump it up to $4,500 or even $5,000 ...