This early 1st Model Colt Dragoon was manufactured in 1848.  It has all the very early characteristics, square back trigger guard with the flared trigger bow, rakish grip profile, oval cylinder stops, heavy pressure roll on the cylinder and a hammer which is drilled, not slotted for the safety pin.  The gun has all matching serial numbers to include backstrap, trigger guard, frame, barrel, loading lever, cylinder, cylinder pin, barrel wedge and grips.  This old gun still retains a very respectable amount of cylinder scene which is visible all the way around the cylinder.  It has a good functioning action and the cylinder locks up when rotated.  These early Dragoons are extremely historic and hard to find in good, used condition.  They played a role in the California Gold Rush and did good duty in contests with the Comanches in the Southwest.  If you are a student and study this gun very closely, you will realize that it is made up of rejected military parts.  The frame is marked US and there is actually a military sub-inspector mark on the matching loading lever.  It is however, not military.  It is in whole or part, a reject from the second US contract, which is commonly referred to as the Fluck Dragoon.  Sam Colt didn't waste anything.  Any rejected guns he could get his hands on, he would straighten out and refinish, silver plate the back strap and trigger guard and sell on the commercial market.   It is a little confusing but when Colt manufactured the 2nd US Contract of 1000 guns, he reached forward and picked the two to three thousand serial number range and serial numbered them accordingly .  His commercial production was, at the beginning, no higher than serial number fourteen or fifteen hundred.  The characteristics of this gun are comparable to a 2nd US Contract gun, which would be in the high 2000 range and would definitely place it in the 1848 production.   A heck of an old "War Horse."  Price $9,750.  Price Reduced $8,250!!

This is a Hartford London Colt 1851 Navy, manufactured somewhere around 1866.  Although manufactured at Hartford, Connecticut, it was made for sale in England.  The barrel address is "Address Col Colt London."  It has English view and proof marks on the barrel and cylinder and a tiny L beneath the serial number on the barrel, frame and trigger guard.   The gun has matching serial numbers with a considerable amount of blue on the barrel and fading case colors on the loading lever, frame and hammer.  It is extremely pleasant looking.  The case is authentic, of the period and at first struck me a little odd.  Even though it is made of oak, the interior is lined with the maroon velvet like a Hartford case of the period and it has a Hartford butterfly in the lid.  Beyond that, there is a Colt label on the inside of the lid, not an English dealer label.  While the flask is not the normal flask you expect to see, the case was originally laid out for it.  The earlier cased Colts that were cased in London almost always have a Dixon flask.  This flask looks to be American made.  I finally figured it out.  The reason this case looks a little odd and has so many Hartford characteristics about it is that not only was the gun made in Hartford for the English market but the case was as well.  Price $9,750.  Price Reduced $8,550!!

This is a really sharp U.S. Civil War issue Remington New Model 1858 Revolver.  It probably has 50% plus of the original blue.  The finish is not worn off the gun, all the edges are sharp as a razor.  Remington Revolvers of this era are notorious for flaking finishes.  Somehow, depending on the environment, the finish flakes off the gun.  I am not sure this gun was ever really fired.  There is blue in the bottom of the chambers of the cylinder and the bore is brand new.  The grips are near perfect, original oil finish with the O.W. Ainsworth cartouche.  The gun is mechanically crisp, tight and very edgy.  The barrel, frame, cylinder, grips, trigger guard and loading lever all bear U.S. sub-inspector marks.  Despite the flaking to the finish, it is still a fine to excellent condition Civil War issue revolver.  Price $2,750.  Price Reduced $2,250!!  SOLD!!