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LOT 1184
Extremely Rare Factory Engraved Colt Paterson No. 2 Belt Model Revolver with Eight Inlaid Silver Bands - Serial no.
506, 34 Percussion cal., 5 1/2 inch bbl., blue finish, walnut grips. This is an extraordinary example of an extremely rare factory engraved, Colt Paterson No. 2 Belt
Model revolver with eight silver bands manufactured between 1837 and 1840. The revolver has a 5 1/2 inch, .34 caliber barrel and five-shot round back cylinder. The straight walnut grip has a flat butt. The barrel lug has a double curve. The top of the barrel is roll-stamped “- Patent Arms M’g Co Paterson N-J Colt’s Pt.-” with arrows at either end of the legend. The legend reads from the breech to the muzzle. The serial number “506” is stamped on the front face of the barrel lug, the underside of the wedge, the breech end of the cylinder and on the cylinder turning ring. All of the visible serial numbers match. The cylinder is roll-stamped with the Colt centaur and horsemen scene. The hammer spur has heart-shaped knurling. The revolver is factory inlaid with eight silver bands (the most bands found on any Paterson revolver is ten) and has a scalloped German silver escutcheon inlaid on the back strap. The sides and bottom of the frame, recoil shields, hammer, back strap, and sides of the barrel lug are decorated with vine scroll-work on a plain background. An anchor is engraved on both sides of the barrel lug and a hound and sunburst are engraved on the underside of the frame behind the trigger. Engraved Colt Paterson revolvers are extremely rare. Colt Paterson expert R.L. Wilson stated in “THE PATERSON COLT BOOK” that only 5-7% of the approximately 2,850 Colt Paterson handguns were engraved. This revolver may be the only Colt
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Paterson decorated with the unique combination of eight silver bands, vine scroll-work and an anchor
inlaid motif.