Product Details
A GOOD CASED AND RARE .44 COLT HARTFORD-LONDON DRAGOON PERCUSSION REVOLVER, CIRCA 1854, serial number 452,
with 7 1/2in. sighted barrel the top flat stamped 'ADDRESS SAML. COLT NEW YORK CITY', the barrel lug stamped with London proofs, open top frame stamped on the left 'COLT'S / PATENT', six shot London proofed cylinder, with safety pins and etched with the famed scene of Texas Rangers fighting Native American Indians with 'MODEL U.S.M.R'. in a decorative box with serial number and 'COLT'S PATENT' below (faint and with some bruising to the cylinder) silver plated brass trigger-guard and back-strap, one piece walnut grips, the revolver is contained in its original green baize lined and partitioned oak case, the front with inset brass locking bolts, the inside lid with its original instruction label, accessories include its correct copper bodied flask by Hawksley with long adjustable nozzle, double cavity brass mould, cleaning rod, oil bottle, also included is the case key, the revolver is quite sharp and crisp overall, with excellent grips, much silver plating to the trigger-guard and back-strap, and all matching numbers
Provenance: There is still some confusion regarding these Hartford-London Dragoon revolvers as to whether they were shipped to London in the white and finished at the Colt factory, Pimlico or shipped as parts and assembled and finished at the London factory. None were made at London probably, the main demand was for the popular Navy model, the Dragoon proofed to be too heavy and cumbersome, only 700 were assembled and 200 of these were returned to America in 1860
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Estimate £3,000-5,000