RARE CASED COLT PATERSON BELT MODEL NO. 2 PERCUSSION REVOLVER.

Revised: 9/17/2012

Correction: The catalog estimates should read (200,000-300,000).

RARE CASED COLT PATERSON BELT MODEL NO. 2 PERCUSSION REVOLVER. SN 676. Cal. 34. Usual configuration with 5-1/2″ oct bbl, small German silver front sight and 1-line address “Patent Arms M’g Co. Paterson, N-J Colt’s Pt.” with bow tie dashes at each end. Cyls are usual 5-shots with centaur scene roll markings. Trigger guard & backstrap are steel, containing a 1-pc walnut grip matching numbered in buttstrap channel. Matching SNs were noted on rear face of bbl lug, wedge, both cyls, cyl rotating ring, hammer, grip & right sides of the front & backstraps. Accompanied by an orig Colt Paterson mahogany casing with fluted lid and an empty German silver plaque in the top. Interior is burgundy velvet lined with recesses for the revolver cyl & grip and the charger. Right rear corner also has a post with recess for the spare cyl. Remaining accessories are secured with wire clips and posts. The accessories accompanying this revolver are a mold with sgl rnd ball cavity and three walnut handles with brass ferrules, an orig brass charger that is inscribed in period script “G.G. Benjamin” and has the bbl address roll marking on the center ring, a fine brass capper numbered “82”, a loading tool with nipple pick and nipple wrench, an orig brass cleaning rod with turned walnut handle, a spare matching numbered cyl and a functioning key. Such complete sets are rarely ever encountered. According to The Book of Colt Firearms, Wilson, only about 800 of these revolvers were produced in the period 1837-1840. CONDITION: Fine plus, all matching as previously noted. Bbl retains 85-88% glossy orig blue with sharp edge wear and thinning at the chamber end with some scattered light surface etching; frame retains about 25% thin orig blue on the recoil shields with the balance a cleaned gray metal patina; cyls are about identical in condition, retaining thin blue mixed with brown patina and both retain strong centaur scene roll marking with some light pitting on one cyl; grip frame is a gray metal patina. Grip is sound, dark & oil stained with a smooth hand worn patina. Mechanics are fine, bright shiny bore. Case has a couple of cracks and grain checks in the lid with usual handling & storage nicks & scratches and retains strong orig varnish, crazed on the lid; interior is lightly to moderately soiled inside the lid with a few spots of chemical staining and is otherwise intact; bottom is moderately faded and heavily soiled missing a spot or two of cloth; under the spare cyl recess is bare wood; charger retains a medium mustard patina with the powder ring spring broken; mold retains about 80% orig blue with solid handles; capper retains a medium mustard patina as does the cleaning rod which has a cracked handle; loading tool retains thin orig blue. 4-46708 JR156 (200,000-300,000)

Auction: Firearms - Fall 2012

Please Note: All prices include the hammer price plus the buyer’s premium, which is paid by the buyer as part of the purchase price. The prices noted here after the auction are considered unofficial and do not become official until after the 46th day.

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	1480	$0.00	Revised: 9/17/2012 Correction: The catalog estimates should read (200,000-300,000). RARE CASED COLT PATERSON BELT MODEL NO. 2 PERCUSSION REVOLVER. SN 676. Cal. 34. Usual configuration with 5-1/2″ oct bbl, small German silver front sight and 1-line address “Patent Arms M’g Co. Paterson, N-J Colt’s Pt.” with bow tie dashes at each end. Cyls are usual 5-shots with centaur scene roll markings. Trigger guard & backstrap are steel, containing a 1-pc walnut grip matching numbered in buttstrap channel. Matching SNs were noted on rear face of bbl lug, wedge, both cyls, cyl rotating ring, hammer, grip & right sides of the front & backstraps. Accompanied by an orig Colt Paterson mahogany casing with fluted lid and an empty German silver plaque in the top. Interior is burgundy velvet lined with recesses for the revolver cyl & grip and the charger. Right rear corner also has a post with recess for the spare cyl. Remaining accessories are secured with wire clips and posts. The accessories accompanying this revolver are a mold with sgl rnd ball cavity and three walnut handles with brass ferrules, an orig brass charger that is inscribed in period script “G.G. Benjamin” and has the bbl address roll marking on the center ring, a fine brass capper numbered “82”, a loading tool with nipple pick and nipple wrench, an orig brass cleaning rod with turned walnut handle, a spare matching numbered cyl and a functioning key. Such complete sets are rarely ever encountered. According to The Book of Colt Firearms, Wilson, only about 800 of these revolvers were produced in the period 1837-1840. CONDITION: Fine plus, all matching as previously noted. Bbl retains 85-88% glossy orig blue with sharp edge wear and thinning at the chamber end with some scattered light surface etching; frame retains about 25% thin orig blue on the recoil shields with the balance a cleaned gray metal patina; cyls are about identical in condition, retaining thin blue mixed with brown patina and both retain strong centaur scene roll marking with some light pitting on one cyl; grip frame is a gray metal patina. Grip is sound, dark & oil stained with a smooth hand worn patina. Mechanics are fine, bright shiny bore. Case has a couple of cracks and grain checks in the lid with usual handling & storage nicks & scratches and retains strong orig varnish, crazed on the lid; interior is lightly to moderately soiled inside the lid with a few spots of chemical staining and is otherwise intact; bottom is moderately faded and heavily soiled missing a spot or two of cloth; under the spare cyl recess is bare wood; charger retains a medium mustard patina with the powder ring spring broken; mold retains about 80% orig blue with solid handles; capper retains a medium mustard patina as does the cleaning rod which has a cracked handle; loading tool retains thin orig blue. 4-46708 JR156 (200,000-300,000) Auction: Firearms - Fall 2012 Please Note: All prices include the hammer price plus the buyer’s premium, which is paid by the buyer as part of the purchase price. The prices noted here after the auction are considered unofficial and do not become official until after the 46th day.

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