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Silver Plated Colt Revolver 1849 Pocket
Guns International #: 101016452 Seller's Inventory #: 13998
Category: Colt Revolvers - Antique Percussion - Colt Revolvers - Antique
Seller's Information
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Seller: Joe Salter com
Company: Down East Antiques - Joe Salter
Member Since: 9/10/10
First Name: Garrick-March-Jim-Joe
Last Name: Salter
State: New Hampshire
Zip: 03031
Country: United States
Phone: (603) 732-4000
Fax: (603) 732-4200
Platinum Seller
Number of Active Listings: 1184
Total Number of Listings: 20133
Seller: FFL Dealer
Return Policy: 3 day inspection and return policy on used guns.
We have a 30 day Inspection Period and NOT a 3 day Inspection.
Payment Types Accepted: We take all major credit cards with NO CREDIT CARD FEES! Also Check or Money order.
About Us: Joe Salter has been in the Antique and Collector Weapons business for 60 years as both a collector and dealer. Our company is based in Southern New Hampshire and we have had an internet based store front for the past 20 years. We are federally licensed and deal in all types of firearms and related material.
Description:
Serial #300871, .31 caliber, 4" octagon barrel with a good bore that has some dark freckling and pitting within the grooves. This revolver was made in 1868 and has matching numbers on the frame, barrel, cylinder, arbor, wedge, triggerguard, and backstrap. The metal retains 85-90% of the original full silver-plated finish (now turned to a dark blue-black patina throughout) with some flaking along the edges and spots of dark freckling and pinprick pitting at the muzzle. The cylinder likewise has some bubbling of the silver plate with some further pinprick pitting around the nipples. Evidently, the revolver was loaded and forgotten about because all six chambers are filled with period conical bullets that have varying amounts of impact damage at their noses. The brass has about 40-50% of the original silver remaining in darkly tarnished patches, and has a pale yellow-ochre patina where the underlying metal is exposed. The one-piece grip has most of the original piano varnish finish remaining with a few scattered handling marks and blemishes, most noticeably a diagonal impact mark that carries onto the gripstrap on the underside just behind the triggerguard bow. The lock-up is still tight and the revolver rates fine-near excellent overall. It is a simply splendid, and unusual, example of a silver-plated '49 Pocket. We have contacted Colt on this little revolver and they have no record available. All evidence points to this being a factory silver finish. Antique
SOLD
Antique: Yes
Manufacturer: Colt
Model: 1849
Serial Number: 300871
Caliber Info: .31 Cal
Gauge Info: .31 Cal