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AS PICTURED AND DESCRIBED IN THE PATERSON COLT BOOK BY WILSON
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Rare Documented Patent Arms Mfg. Co. Colt Paterson Second Model Ring Lever Percussion Rifle
- Serial no. 282, 44 cal., 27 7/8 inch octagon bbl., blue finish, walnut stock. Samuel Colt manufactured approximately 500 Second Model Ring Lever Rifles at his Paterson, New Jersey, factory in 1838-1841. These rifles were serial numbered in their own range starting with serial number 1. Surviving examples of this historically significant Colt firearm are extremely rare. This rifle is featured on pages 188 and 189 of “The Paterson Colt Book” by R.L. Wilson and is discussed extensively on pages 199-201. Robert Pershing later in that section notes that “It is my belief, after subsequent research, that this rifle might well have been one of the second shipment, October 8, 1839. The rifle was issued to a soldier in the Texas Army and was kept by him when discharged. He started a cattle operation in South Eastern Texas, utilizing Galveston as a port for shipping his livestock. Later, he and his kin moved to Louisiana taking the gun with them. The family operated this ranch until the late 1920’s or early 1930’s. Paul Sorrell, a collector-dealer in Beaumont, Texas, discovered the rifle in the hands of the great-grandson of the original owner, who indeed could remember his grandmother telling about great grandfather using the rifle to kill cattle on their range on Grand Isle, Louisiana. The great-grandson was a druggist in Houma, Louisiana. This rifle came out of the brush, passed down, from generation to generation until 1991...The serial number is in the range that was sold...to the
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