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LOT 1124
Highly Attractive Early Production, Two-Digit
Serial Number 98, Engraved Remington Model
1890 Single Action Army Revolver with Ivory
Grips, Attributed to the 1893 World’s Columbian
Exposition and the Remington Factory Collection
- Serial no. 98, 44-40 WCF cal., 7 1/2 inch round bbl.,
nickel finish, ivory grips. This highly attractive early
production Remington Model 1890 Single Action Army
revolver was manufactured c. 1891, bearing the two-
digit serial number 98, and features exquisite engraving
in the style of Louis D. Nimschke, who is known to have
been tasked with engraving firearms for Remington
and other leading firearms companies for exhibitions
as well as important presentations such as the factory
engraved Remington New Model Army revolvers that
were presented to Ulysses S. Grant and previously sold
by Rock Island Auction Co. for $5.17 million in May of
2022. Approximately 2,020 Model 1890 Single Action
Army Revolvers were manufactured c. 1891-1896, per
“Flayderman’s Guide” (9th Edition, 5E-056). The extent
of the engraving combined with the ivory grips and the
low serial number suggests this revolver was possibly
selected for engraving as a factory exhibition piece to
help promote Remington’s revolvers, possibly for the
1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The
New York Times newspaper dated August 6, 1893, has
an article titled “An Education in Firearms, American
Displays at Chicago Surpass All Former Exhibits” and
states, “There are three exhibits in the Manufactures
Building, all within close proximity of each other, which
attest undoubted supremacy of the United States as a
producer of the highest class of arms.
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