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LOT 3065
Excellent Colt First Generation Frontier Six Shooter Single Action Army Revolver
with Original Box and Factory Letter - Serial no. 351210, 44-40 cal., 5 1/2 inch round
bbl., blue/casehardened finish, hard rubber grips. The factory letter for this revolver lists
it in .44 caliber with a 5 1/2 inch barrel, blue finish, and rubber stocks and indicates it
was part of a two gun shipment to Murta Appleton & Co. in Philadelphia on November
29, 1927. Incredibly, the revolver looks as if it never even left the factory nearly a
century ago, and it is even accompanied by an original factory box with matching end
label and the serial number “351210” and “16-70” marked on the left end of the lid as
well as the serial number again on the bottom. The box contains a wood “BAIR’S PAT”
rod, cleaning brush, wax paper, Colt’s Revolvers flyer, and Colt “Proper Ammunition” flyer
warning of using “cheap and inferior foreign cartridges...” The revolver features a blade
front sight and the one-line Hartford address on top of the barrel, “COLT FRONTIER SIX
SHOOTER .44-40” along the left side of the barrel, the two-line patent marking followed
by the Rampant Colt trade mark on the left side of the frame, “3” over the “VP” proof on
the left side of the trigger guard, assembly number “700” on the loading gate and rear
of the frame, “10” and “29” on the rear of the cylinder, and the matching serial number
“351210” on the frame, right side of the grip straps, and on the inside of the grips.
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