IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The Model 1851 Navy was Colt’s most ...

Perhaps one of the longest-running arguments among shooters, re-enactors and collectors, centres on the form and function of the two most popular American .44 calibre percussion revolvers of the ...

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For its time and place, the Colt Single Action Army was the total package – powerful, rugged, and so well-shaped that it felt ...

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The idea behind the first Colt handguns was inspired more by sea spray and carved pine than by metal and gunpowder. Sixteen-year-old Samuel Colt, aboard the swaying deck of Corvo en route to Calcutta, ...

Sam Colt never claimed to have invented the multi-shot pistol with a revolving cylinder but merely to have improved it with his ideas. For several years he struggled to find enough money to pay ...