Share 'A Colt revolver in its mahogany case'

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 seria…