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This revolver features especially fine and stunning deluxe factory engraving
consisting of complex interlacing Germanic scrollwork with beaded
backgrounds, detailed dog masks, and foliate accents. The engraving even
extends to around the German silver blade front sight, the small flats at the
bottom of the barrel lug, the flat sections at the rear of the loading lever arm,
and to multi-point checkering and knurling at the front of the loading lever
arm. The engraving also surrounds the one-line New York barrel address on the
barrel, and the “COLTS/PATENT” marking is neatly inscribed instead of stamped
among the scrollwork on the left side of the frame. The dog grotesques are
found on both sides of the barrel above the wedge, the left side of the frame
below the hammer screw, and on the hammer and feature the “tear drop”
accents by the eyes seen on other works by Young. The hammer also features
a series of nine dots in a chevron panel on the spur. These dots are said to
represent the number of days Gustave Young spent engraving the revolver.