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Category - Colt Revolvers - Conversion 1867-1878 - Colt Revolvers - Antique

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Colt Revolvers - Conversion 1867-1878
Colt Revolvers - Antique

Antique Colt 1861 Navy Navy Conversion Rare .R.W.M. Marked Barrel. 38 Center Fire. Nice Blue And Lots Of Case Colors. 80% Cylinder Scene. Ex Mechanics

Description:
Antique Colt 1861 Navy Navy conversion. This is an extremely nice and fairly rare Colt 1861 Navy Navy conversion.. Standard 7 1/2” barrel and is in the .36 Long Colt center fire cartridge. It has the initials R.W.M. With the anchor on the bottom of the barrel. This is the inspector Richard W. Meade that inspected these revolvers after Colt converted them and they came back to the Navy. This one does not have the anchor at the end of the barrel address. That anchor was the inspector mark when it was still percussion in the US Navy. The S/N's are 6693 on the barrel, frame and cylinder. The back strap and trigger guard numbers are 3030.. These mixed numbers are totally correct for these 1861 conversions.. The excellent book written by the late Bruce McDowell explains all of this to great detail. In fact he has photos of a 61 conversion with three different S/N's. The down fall is that the grips have either been cleaned and refinished or they are from a different gun as the fit is not correct at the toe and heel area so I would say they have been replaced. Still look great with no cracks or chips. The mechanics are excellent.. This gun is about as tight as new with very little cylinder side roll. Rock solid barrel to frame fit also. Tight wedge. As you can see this gun has some very nice blue and case colors remaining. The blue and case colors show up with the gun in hand much better than the photos show. The barrel has some nice blue all around the ejector housing and in the protected areas on the bottom of the barrel and on both sides of the barrel lug around the wedge. The cylinder and the remaining barrel finish is a nice smooth medium brown patina. The bottom of the barrel shows a spot about 2 inches long that has been cleaned. Looks like it had a few dings and someone tried to clean them up a little. The frame has some real nice case colors. The left side has about 50% bright case colors.. The left side has faded down to just traces of case color. The hammer has 100% bright vivid case colors on the rear and front and about 95% bright vivid case colors on both sides. The ejector and wedge screws retain most all their fine bright fire blue as well as the trigger and hammer screw. All the screw head slots are clean and sharp and not all burred up from tinkering. All the markings are excellent. The cylinder has about 75% to 80% cylinder scene with the matching S/N 6693 stamped under the percussion S/N from a 1851 Navy as is totally correct. The cylinders from a 61 and a 51 are identical. Colt did not pay any attention to the S/N on the cylinders when they converted them nor did they on the some of the back straps and trigger guards as mentioned above. The bore is excellent and bright and shiny mint. Excellent chambers also.. Still has the original ejector rod head that is the “target” style with the concentric rings. These were easily broken off and many are found with replacements from what ever they could find. This is a very nice gun that is not usually found with this much finish. These conversions seen a lot of use as they went through the Civil War as a percussion. Then went Colt for the conversion and refinished and back to the Navy where some stayed until they were replaced with the Colt.38 swing out cylinder revolvers. Then they were sold off to the public and seen use on the frontier so lots of history here. If not for the replaced grips it would be priced a bit higher but still offered here at a reasonable price for such a fine gun. Call 765-728-8049 with any questions of more photos. $40 insured shipping registered mail. Please click on the top blue link to see all Tom Boyer's guns. I may have something else of interest and some reduced prices so miss them.

Antique: Yes

Price: $3,595.00