April 11-13, 2023 Firearms and Militaria
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 4/12/2023
Model 1877 "Lightning" double action revolver manufactured by Colt in 1897. The left side of the barrel bears the caliber designation, with Colt's 2-line address across the top. The left side of the frame bears Colt's patent information followed by the encircled Rampant Colt logo. Frame is case color hardened, while the cylinder, barrel, grip straps, and trigger guard are blued; trigger is nitre blued. Frame is mounted with 2-piece Colt checkered hard rubber bird's head grips. Matching numbers are present on the frame, trigger guard, on the bottom of the butt, and are hand-written with the last 2 digits "64" on the interior of the grip panels. Revolver is accompanied by a copy of the factory letter listing the finish as "Blue" and the grips as "Rubber", and also indicates that this example was 1 of 2 guns shipped to C.W. Hackett Hardware Company in St. Paul, Minnesota on January 24th of 1898. CONDITION: Frame retains areas of strong case coloring, exhibiting areas of wear, fading, as well as some areas of inactive oxidation. Blued components exhibit wear and thinning that show through to gray and brown patinas. Bright bore, exhibiting some scattered areas of pitting and retaining well defined rifling throughout. Grips show some smoothing and a couple marks from handling and storage, but are otherwise fine.
Paperwork
Copy of Factory Letter