Samuel Colt’s original patents for his revolver, which helped change the course of U.S history, are set to auction at University Archives this month. The sale on February 26 will offer an archive of ...

Colt, sent out Mr. Peard as his agent to Cape Town, with a quantity of his revolvers and he invited the most celebrated shots in the British army there, to test their rifles with Colt's revolvers ...

Colt revolvers had long been embellished with decorative scenes on the cylinder periphery and to commemorate this act of Texas bravery, in 1850 Colt tasked engraver W.L. Ormsby with designing a scene ...

My introduction to ‘old’ guns came from the late Brian Bailey, a collector and student of everything Colt. His passion and enthusiasm for the marque rubbed off on me, along with a smattering of his ...

Description In total, over 19,000 six-shot .44 caliber First, Second and Third Model Colt Dragoon revolvers were produced between 1848 and 1861. Many were purchased for military issue by both the U.S.

A memorial to Samuel Colt in Hartford, Conn., headquarters of his Patent Arms Manufacturing Company. The revolver Colt developed was a vast improvement on 19th-century firearms, and it eventually ...

A Colt Single Action Army revolver, well-known to collectors as "Black Beauty" realized $1.6 million during Rock Island Auction Company's (RIAC) May Premier Auction.