September 20th 2015 Premier Firearms Sale
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 9/19/2015
Serial number is 109182 and manufactured in 1898. The factory letter confirms all physical aspects of this gun as having been shipped on November 8, 1898 to the Simmons Hardware Co. of St. Louis Mo. in a shipment of one gun. It was shipped in .38 caliber with a 2-1/2” barrel, nickel finish with rubber grips. The gun remains in lovely untouched condition. The barrel retains virtually all of the original nickel sans the muzzle. The frame retains at least 80% original nickel with most of the wear ahead of the cylinder while the cylinder retains at least 80% finish with some freckling. The screws and back of hammer retain the majority of the high polish blue finish. Grips are superb. Perfect working order in both single and double action. Rifling is pronounced but there is black powder abrasion. These shorty Colts are getting very difficult to locate and the interest in them has sky rocketed in recent years. A classic old west hide away gun.