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Description:
#4891 Colt 1860 Army, “Springfield Arsenal”, 44cal percussion revolver, mostly being mixed numbers and having the “U.S.” mark on the trigger bow.
Smooth well timed action, the bore is dark and dirty but looks like it may clean to about an average black powder bore, that being about a 5-6 on a scale of 10. This scarce and desireable Colt looks to have been used long and fairly hard, but considering that these were issued to the 9th and 10th Cavalry in the SouthWest ( the “Buffalo Soldiers”) these rebuilt percussion revolvers did not get good care for the most part. It has basically VG smooth metal overall with fair markings (somewhat weak address and no cylinder scene whatsoever) and just a thin grayish brown patina. Fair original grips with some significant wear and chips to the toe edges, cartouche not visible. These post-Civil War ’60-Army rebuilds were the brainstorm of the Army, much the same as the later Colt S/A Artillery was in the late 1890s. Supposedly, the Army didn’t want to arm the Texas and Oklahoma “buffalo soldiers” (black regiments) with the latest and greatest cartridge guns for fear that the soldiers would trade the new cartridge guns for whiskey, wild women, and song. So they took old Civil War Model 1860 Armies, refurbished and refinished them ( and this is probably why the cylinder scene is gone), stamped them with a “U.S.” on the front of the triggerbow, and thus armed the black soldiers with “yesterdays old percussion technology”. When found, these SouthWest guns tend to be in pretty “used up”conditions ….this one is a little better than most and does have the more scarce earlier “four-screw” frame. About “VG” as described. $2395
Description:
#4891 Colt 1860 Army, “Springfield Arsenal”, 44cal percussion revolver, mostly being mixed numbers and having the “U.S.” mark on the trigger bow.
Smooth well timed action, the bore is dark and dirty but looks like it may clean to about an average black powder bore, that being about a 5-6 on a scale of 10. This scarce and desireable Colt looks to have been used long and fairly hard, but considering that these were issued to the 9th and 10th Cavalry in the SouthWest ( the “Buffalo Soldiers”) these rebuilt percussion revolvers did not get good care for the most part. It has basically VG smooth metal overall with fair markings (somewhat weak address and no cylinder scene whatsoever) and just a thin grayish brown patina. Fair original grips with some significant wear and chips to the toe edges, cartouche not visible. These post-Civil War ’60-Army rebuilds were the brainstorm of the Army, much the same as the later Colt S/A Artillery was in the late 1890s. Supposedly, the Army didn’t want to arm the Texas and Oklahoma “buffalo soldiers” (black regiments) with the latest and greatest cartridge guns for fear that the soldiers would trade the new cartridge guns for whiskey, wild women, and song. So they took old Civil War Model 1860 Armies, refurbished and refinished them ( and this is probably why the cylinder scene is gone), stamped them with a “U.S.” on the front of the triggerbow, and thus armed the black soldiers with “yesterdays old percussion technology”. When found, these SouthWest guns tend to be in pretty “used up”conditions ….this one is a little better than most and does have the more scarce earlier “four-screw” frame. About “VG” as described. $2395
Description:
#4891 Colt 1860 Army, “Springfield Arsenal”, 44cal percussion revolver, mostly being mixed numbers and having the “U.S.” mark on the trigger bow.
Smooth well timed action, the bore is dark and dirty but looks like it may clean to about an average black powder bore, that being about a 5-6 on a scale of 10. This scarce and desireable Colt looks to have been used long and fairly hard, but considering that these were issued to the 9th and 10th Cavalry in the SouthWest ( the “Buffalo Soldiers”) these rebuilt percussion revolvers did not get good care for the most part. It has basically VG smooth metal overall with fair markings (somewhat weak address and no cylinder scene whatsoever) and just a thin grayish brown patina. Fair original grips with some significant wear and chips to the toe edges, cartouche not visible. These post-Civil War ’60-Army rebuilds were the brainstorm of the Army, much the same as the later Colt S/A Artillery was in the late 1890s. Supposedly, the Army didn’t want to arm the Texas and Oklahoma “buffalo soldiers” (black regiments) with the latest and greatest cartridge guns for fear that the soldiers would trade the new cartridge guns for whiskey, wild women, and song. So they took old Civil War Model 1860 Armies, refurbished and refinished them ( and this is probably why the cylinder scene is gone), stamped them with a “U.S.” on the front of the triggerbow, and thus armed the black soldiers with “yesterdays old percussion technology”. When found, these SouthWest guns tend to be in pretty “used up”conditions ….this one is a little better than most and does have the more scarce earlier “four-screw” frame. About “VG” as described. $2395
Description:
#4891 Colt 1860 Army, “Springfield Arsenal”, 44cal percussion revolver, mostly being mixed numbers and having the “U.S.” mark on the trigger bow.
Smooth well timed action, the bore is dark and dirty but looks like it may clean to about an average black powder bore, that being about a 5-6 on a scale of 10. This scarce and desireable Colt looks to have been used long and fairly hard, but considering that these were issued to the 9th and 10th Cavalry in the SouthWest ( the “Buffalo Soldiers”) these rebuilt percussion revolvers did not get good care for the most part. It has basically VG smooth metal overall with fair markings (somewhat weak address and no cylinder scene whatsoever) and just a thin grayish brown patina. Fair original grips with some significant wear and chips to the toe edges, cartouche not visible. These post-Civil War ’60-Army rebuilds were the brainstorm of the Army, much the same as the later Colt S/A Artillery was in the late 1890s. Supposedly, the Army didn’t want to arm the Texas and Oklahoma “buffalo soldiers” (black regiments) with the latest and greatest cartridge guns for fear that the soldiers would trade the new cartridge guns for whiskey, wild women, and song. So they took old Civil War Model 1860 Armies, refurbished and refinished them ( and this is probably why the cylinder scene is gone), stamped them with a “U.S.” on the front of the triggerbow, and thus armed the black soldiers with “yesterdays old percussion technology”. When found, these SouthWest guns tend to be in pretty “used up”conditions ….this one is a little better than most and does have the more scarce earlier “four-screw” frame. About “VG” as described. $2395