Description
Item Description
Bryant Ridge Auction Company is pleased to present this historic Colt revolver today for a penny-start auction, this is the Colt 1849 Pocket!
This example has matching serial numbers on the Frame, Trigger Guard, Backstrap, Arbor, Barrel, and Wedge!
This example has matching serial numbers on the Frame, Trigger Guard, Backstrap, Arbor, Barrel, and Wedge!
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SPECIFICATIONS:
Contents:
This example will ship with a period leather holster seen pictured above!
Note:
*This example will need the handspring to be repaired for the action to index correctly with the barrel pointed up*
Return Policy:
We gladly offer a 3 day unfired inspection policy from the time that the firearm is delivered to your FFL. Refunds are available for all qualifying orders.
SPECIFICATIONS:
Manufacturer: Colt
Model: 1849 Pocket
Serial: 227316
Date of Manufacture: 1863
Caliber: .31 Cal
Finish: Blue / Color Case Hardened / Brass
Barrel Length: 4" Octagon
Optics/Sights: Fixed front, hammer nose rear
Stock/Grips: Smooth one-piece Walnut
Action: Black Powder; Percussion Cap and Ball
Markings: Standard, matching serial numbers on the Frame, Trigger Guard, Backstrap, Arbor, Barrel, and Wedge
Bryant Ridge's Analysis:
The family of Colt Pocket Percussion Revolvers evolved from the earlier commercial revolvers marketed by the Patent Arms Manufacturing Company of Paterson, N.J. The smaller versions of Colt's first revolvers are also called "Baby Patersons" by collectors and were produced first in .28 to .31 caliber, and later in .36 caliber, by means of rebating the frame and adding a "step" to the cylinder to increase diameter. The .31 caliber carried over into Samuel Colt's second venture in the arms trade in the form of the "Baby Dragoon"-a small revolver developed in 1847–48. The "Baby Dragoon" was in parallel development with Colt's other revolvers and, by 1850, it had evolved into the "Colt's Revolving Pocket Pistol" that collectors now name "The Pocket Model of 1849". It is a smaller brother of the more famous "Colt's Revolving Belt Pistol of Naval Caliber" introduced the same year and commonly designated by collectors as the "1851 Navy Model". In 1855 Colt introduced another pocket percussion revolver, the Colt 1855 "Sidehammer", designed alongside engineer Elisha K. Root.
Model: 1849 Pocket
Serial: 227316
Date of Manufacture: 1863
Caliber: .31 Cal
Finish: Blue / Color Case Hardened / Brass
Barrel Length: 4" Octagon
Optics/Sights: Fixed front, hammer nose rear
Stock/Grips: Smooth one-piece Walnut
Action: Black Powder; Percussion Cap and Ball
Markings: Standard, matching serial numbers on the Frame, Trigger Guard, Backstrap, Arbor, Barrel, and Wedge
Bryant Ridge's Analysis:
The family of Colt Pocket Percussion Revolvers evolved from the earlier commercial revolvers marketed by the Patent Arms Manufacturing Company of Paterson, N.J. The smaller versions of Colt's first revolvers are also called "Baby Patersons" by collectors and were produced first in .28 to .31 caliber, and later in .36 caliber, by means of rebating the frame and adding a "step" to the cylinder to increase diameter. The .31 caliber carried over into Samuel Colt's second venture in the arms trade in the form of the "Baby Dragoon"-a small revolver developed in 1847–48. The "Baby Dragoon" was in parallel development with Colt's other revolvers and, by 1850, it had evolved into the "Colt's Revolving Pocket Pistol" that collectors now name "The Pocket Model of 1849". It is a smaller brother of the more famous "Colt's Revolving Belt Pistol of Naval Caliber" introduced the same year and commonly designated by collectors as the "1851 Navy Model". In 1855 Colt introduced another pocket percussion revolver, the Colt 1855 "Sidehammer", designed alongside engineer Elisha K. Root.
One legend has it that the pocket models were popular with Civil War officers who did not rely on them as combat arms but as defense against battlefield surgeons bent on amputating a limb; a more likely reason is that officers were not expected to directly engage in combat, except in self-defense, and the small size and light weight of the Pocket models made carrying them around more attractive than larger, heavier models (especially once the .36 caliber models came out). Richard Francis Burton was a devotee of Colt Revolvers and carried a selection of them on his Middle Eastern and African journeys including the trip to Somalia and Ethiopia in 1855.
Contents:
This example will ship with a period leather holster seen pictured above!
Note:
*This example will need the handspring to be repaired for the action to index correctly with the barrel pointed up*
Return Policy:
We gladly offer a 3 day unfired inspection policy from the time that the firearm is delivered to your FFL. Refunds are available for all qualifying orders.
Shipping Details
Handgun Standard Shipping $50.00
Long Gun Standard Shipping $70.00
Any orders placed with magazines that are not compliant with your state, county, or city regulations will not ship with your order.
