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CONDITION: Excellent, retains
97% plus original nickel finish
with a few very small patches
of minor flaking, a light cylinder drag
line, and crisp edges in the metal
overall. Grips are also excellent, with
highly attractive fiery colors, tight
fitment, minimal handling evidence,
and distinct edges. Mechanically
excellent. Case is very fine. This is a rare
opportunity to acquire an excellent
cased pearl gripped example of one of
the best built revolvers of the time!
Provenance: The Stagecoach
Museum; Private Collection.
Estimate: 9,500 - 16,000
LOT 1149
Excellent Documented
Presentation Cased E.
Remington & Sons Model 1875
Single Action Army Revolver in .44 Remington with
Pearl Grips, Featured in “The Stagecoach Museum Gun
Collection” - Serial no. 501, 44 Remington CF cal., 7 1/2 inch round
bbl., nickel finish, pearl grips. Approximately 30,000 Model 1875 Single Action Army Revolvers were
manufactured c. 1875-1889, per “Flayderman’s Guide” (9th Edition, 5E-055). This exact revolver is featured
in “The Stagecoach Museum Gun Collection” book, published in 1978, by Saign, Donaldson and Fiet,
where it can be seen pictured with its case on page 26, and also on page 173 where it is shown in the top
row as displayed in the museum. The Stagecoach Museum, opened in 1952 by Ozzie and Marie Klavestad,
was located between Shakopee and Savage, Minnesota, and housed a variety of significant firearms
along with having a whole western town, and was closed and sold off around 1981. Many of these
“Improved Army” or “Frontier Army” revolvers saw hard use in the hands of Native Americans, settlers,
and lawmen in the West. The Model 1875 was Remington’s answer to the Colt Single Action Army and
is a solid firearm with fewer main components than Colt’s revolver, but it simply suffered in the famous
“Peacemaker’s” shadow. The revolver features the distinctive early production features including a First
Type lanyard loop on the butt, and the First Type “pinched” blade front sight threaded into the barrel.
The top of the barrel has the one-line address “E. REMINGTON & SONS. ILION. N.Y. U.S.A.” reading from the
breech towards the muzzle. There are no caliber markings, and this example is properly chambered for
the .44 Remington CF caliber. The serial number “501” is marked on the left side of the grip frame with
the faint matching handwritten number on the interior of the right grip panel, “01” on the rear face of the
cylinder, and assembly number “512” on the loading gate. Small British crown proofs on the barrel and
cylinder. Wearing a set of highly attractive pearl grips. Includes an outstanding rosewood veneered deluxe
presentation case with blank silver shield on top of the lid and a fitted felt lined interior with a cartridge
block containing 23 rounds of .44 Remington CF, a key, and a brass inventory tag numbered “371” from
the Stagecoach museum. “Box 12” is painted in yellow letters on the bottom of the case.
Bottom of case
marked "Box 12"
As pictured & described in
The Stagecoach Museum
Gun Collection by Saign,
Donaldson and Fiet
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