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CONDITION: Excellent, retaining 97% plus original blue finish with some
muzzle wear, a cylinder with drag line and an small area of surface pitting, a
few light handing marks, and crisp engraving. The slightly age shrunken grips
are exceptionally fine with highly attractive color and grain. Mechanically
excellent. A crown jewel in Colt collecting, this rare factory engraved and gold
inlaid Colt New Service DA Target Revolver would be hard to improve upon.
Provenance: The Charles Marx Collection.
Estimate: 37,500 - 55,000
According to The Book of Colt
Firearms, fewer than 75 Colt
New Service revolvers were
factory engraved. Further, less
than 15 combined Colt New
Service and Shooting Master
revolvers had factory gold inlays.
