A Colt revolver in its mahogany case

[Pierre Tavlitzki]

On February 25, 1836, Samuel Colt received a patent for a repeating handgun. His company, the Patents Arms Company, located in Paterson, New Jersey, immediately launched a first model known as the Colt Paterson.

The best known model of this family of five-shot revolvers will be the Number 5 Holster Texas Paterson, .36 caliber, whose production will cease due to Colt bankruptcy in 1842. The serial number 84 comes to be sold at Bonhams and Butterfield in San Francisco on November 17 (Lot 4139). In its mahogany case and accompanied by its accessories, it is in excellent condition. It is expected $ 300 K for this symbol of the United States of the nineteenth century.

Another derivative of the Colt Paterson was the Colt Walker, produced in around thousand copies in 1847 at the time of the war in Mexico. On October 9, one of them was sold at $ 800 K before fees by James D. Julia auction house in Fairfield, Maine.

[Pierre Tavlitzki]

The sale of this lot was successful : 375 K$ before fees.