EXTREMELY RARE AND HISTORIC COLT MODEL 1848 BABY DRAGOON PERCUSSION REVOLVER WITH LEATHER BOUND CASING OF MN GOVERNOR ALEXANDER RAMSEY.

EXTREMELY RARE AND HISTORIC COLT MODEL 1848 BABY DRAGOON PERCUSSION REVOLVER WITH LEATHER BOUND CASING OF MN GOVERNOR ALEXANDER RAMSEY. SN 14040. Cal. 31. Blue & color case hardened with 6″ oct bbl, brass pin front sight and small 2-line New York City address with dashes. It has the attached rammer as is found on the succeeding Model 1849 Pocket revolvers. Left side of frame has forward stamped tiny “COLTS PATENT” and the silver plated square back trigger guard & back strap contain a 1-pc walnut grip with last three digits of SN in back strap channel. Cyl is usual 5-shots with rectangular stop notches and stagecoach holdup scene roll marking and all five safety pins crisp & serviceable. Accompanied by an extraordinarily rare brown leather covered orig Colt casing with beveled top edges and brown velvet lining, recessed in bottom for the revolver, a small rnd brass plunger powder charger, a brass 2-cavity “COLTS PATENT” bullet mold and an L-shaped nipple wrench. Right rear corner has a covered compartment. Leather covering is lacquered or varnished and has a light decorative pattern around the top central panel and diagonally down each corner. Front is mounted with a repoussed brass escutcheon for the completely concealed lock. Only about 15,500 Baby Dragoons were produced in period 1847-1850 with only about a small portion of that number in the serial range for revolvers produced with attached rammers. Extremely few of the entire production were ever cased and they are rarely encountered today. Alexander Ramsey, is the only man to be both appointed first as Governor of the MN Territory by President Taylor in 1848 and then elected the second Governor of MN after statehood from 1860 to 1863. Ramsey was in Washington, D.C., in 1861 at the time the Civil War began, and as Governor, committed for service, the first volunteer troop regiment for the Union Army. Ramsey is also noted for his stern statements and actions against the Sioux during the Great Indian Uprising of 1862. He resigned the governorship to become a U.S. Senator, having been elected to that post in 1863 as a Republican. He was re-elected in 1869 and held the office until March 3, 1875, serving in the 38th, 39th, 40th, 41st, 42nd, and 43rd congresses. Ramsey’s initial appointment brought MN to the favorable attention of many of his former associates, resulting in a substantial migration of capital to the territory. His administration was marked by sound economic management-particularly of the state’s school lands-and by two crises: the Civil War and the Dakota Uprising. Ramsey’s daughter Marion took over the management of her father’s household after her mother died in 1884. Alexander Ramsey died in his home in St. Paul on April 22, 1903. His granddaughters, who never married, lived in the Ramsey House until their deaths. They willed the home to the Minnesota Historical Society, which maintains it as a museum reflecting Ramsey’s life and times. This historic lot is accompanied by a three ring binder containing a Ramsey biography, documents of provenance from the MN Historical Soc. including excerpts from Ramsey’s personal diary accounting for the gun and a 1968 Ramsey House affidavit confirming the sale of the revolver from Ramsey’s Granddaughter, Miss Furness, to Osborne Klavestad of the Stagecoach Museum. Also accompanied by a hardbound edition of “The Stagecoach Museum Gun Collection” in which this exact gun is pictured on p 26. as item #375. PROVENANCE: Ramsey Family Decendants; Stagecoach Museum Gun Coll. #375; Consignor’s Private Coll. CONDITION: Extremely fine plus, all matching including wedge, cyl & grip. Bbl retains 97-98% strong orig factory blue with only light muzzle & sharp edge wear and a small series of very light scratches on left side flat at the muzzle. Rammer & handle retain faded case colors, stronger on the pivot. Frame & hammer retain dark case colors, lightly faded on right side. Cyl retains 85-90% thinning orig blue and about 98% stagecoach holdup scene roll marking with all five safety pins crisp. Grip frame retains virtually all of its dark oxidized silver plating with only slight wear on heel & toe. Grip is sound showing extremely light wear on sharp edges with only a couple of minor flaws in varnish. Mechanics are crisp, brilliant shiny bore with one small spot of pitting. Case is sound with light corner & edge wear with some very minor losses on top left front corner and overall retains most of its dark lacquer or varnish finish. Bottom retains 70-75% orig blue paper with three or four cracks. Interior is moderately faded with light to moderate soil and wear to velvet lining in bottom. Altogether an exceedingly rare & historic set with rock-solid provenance suitable to the most discerning & highest caliber collector. 4-40020 (75,000-125,000)

Auction: Firearms - Fall 2010

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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	2250	$92,000.00	EXTREMELY RARE AND HISTORIC COLT MODEL 1848 BABY DRAGOON PERCUSSION REVOLVER WITH LEATHER BOUND CASING OF MN GOVERNOR ALEXANDER RAMSEY. SN 14040. Cal. 31. Blue & color case hardened with 6″ oct bbl, brass pin front sight and small 2-line New York City address with dashes. It has the attached rammer as is found on the succeeding Model 1849 Pocket revolvers. Left side of frame has forward stamped tiny “COLTS PATENT” and the silver plated square back trigger guard & back strap contain a 1-pc walnut grip with last three digits of SN in back strap channel. Cyl is usual 5-shots with rectangular stop notches and stagecoach holdup scene roll marking and all five safety pins crisp & serviceable. Accompanied by an extraordinarily rare brown leather covered orig Colt casing with beveled top edges and brown velvet lining, recessed in bottom for the revolver, a small rnd brass plunger powder charger, a brass 2-cavity “COLTS PATENT” bullet mold and an L-shaped nipple wrench. Right rear corner has a covered compartment. Leather covering is lacquered or varnished and has a light decorative pattern around the top central panel and diagonally down each corner. Front is mounted with a repoussed brass escutcheon for the completely concealed lock. Only about 15,500 Baby Dragoons were produced in period 1847-1850 with only about a small portion of that number in the serial range for revolvers produced with attached rammers. Extremely few of the entire production were ever cased and they are rarely encountered today. Alexander Ramsey, is the only man to be both appointed first as Governor of the MN Territory by President Taylor in 1848 and then elected the second Governor of MN after statehood from 1860 to 1863. Ramsey was in Washington, D.C., in 1861 at the time the Civil War began, and as Governor, committed for service, the first volunteer troop regiment for the Union Army. Ramsey is also noted for his stern statements and actions against the Sioux during the Great Indian Uprising of 1862. He resigned the governorship to become a U.S. Senator, having been elected to that post in 1863 as a Republican. He was re-elected in 1869 and held the office until March 3, 1875, serving in the 38th, 39th, 40th, 41st, 42nd, and 43rd congresses. Ramsey’s initial appointment brought MN to the favorable attention of many of his former associates, resulting in a substantial migration of capital to the territory. His administration was marked by sound economic management-particularly of the state’s school lands-and by two crises: the Civil War and the Dakota Uprising. Ramsey’s daughter Marion took over the management of her father’s household after her mother died in 1884. Alexander Ramsey died in his home in St. Paul on April 22, 1903. His granddaughters, who never married, lived in the Ramsey House until their deaths. They willed the home to the Minnesota Historical Society, which maintains it as a museum reflecting Ramsey’s life and times. This historic lot is accompanied by a three ring binder containing a Ramsey biography, documents of provenance from the MN Historical Soc. including excerpts from Ramsey’s personal diary accounting for the gun and a 1968 Ramsey House affidavit confirming the sale of the revolver from Ramsey’s Granddaughter, Miss Furness, to Osborne Klavestad of the Stagecoach Museum. Also accompanied by a hardbound edition of “The Stagecoach Museum Gun Collection” in which this exact gun is pictured on p 26. as item #375. PROVENANCE: Ramsey Family Decendants; Stagecoach Museum Gun Coll. #375; Consignor’s Private Coll. CONDITION: Extremely fine plus, all matching including wedge, cyl & grip. Bbl retains 97-98% strong orig factory blue with only light muzzle & sharp edge wear and a small series of very light scratches on left side flat at the muzzle. Rammer & handle retain faded case colors, stronger on the pivot. Frame & hammer retain dark case colors, lightly faded on right side. Cyl retains 85-90% thinning orig blue and about 98% stagecoach holdup scene roll marking with all five safety pins crisp. Grip frame retains virtually all of its dark oxidized silver plating with only slight wear on heel & toe. Grip is sound showing extremely light wear on sharp edges with only a couple of minor flaws in varnish. Mechanics are crisp, brilliant shiny bore with one small spot of pitting. Case is sound with light corner & edge wear with some very minor losses on top left front corner and overall retains most of its dark lacquer or varnish finish. Bottom retains 70-75% orig blue paper with three or four cracks. Interior is moderately faded with light to moderate soil and wear to velvet lining in bottom. Altogether an exceedingly rare & historic set with rock-solid provenance suitable to the most discerning & highest caliber collector. 4-40020 (75,000-125,000) Auction: Firearms - Fall 2010 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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