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AS PICTURED AND DESCRIBED IN THE BOOK THE EVOLUTION OF THE COLT: FIREARMS FROM THE ROBERT Q. SUTHERLAND COLLECTION BY WILSON
The included R.L. Wilson letter provides more details on the revolver’s history after it was manufactured in the late 1850s. He indicates this revolver “is rarer than any other model, in
fact, even more rare than the Double Rifle” and notes that serial number 3 was part of Samuel Colt’s personal firearms collection. Wilson indicates this revolver “left the Colt Factory Museum Collection while Fred A. Roff was company President. Certain guns from the Museum Collection were retained by Colt when the Collection was transferred to the Connecticut State Library, 1957. Among these was Number 1 .40 caliber Navy. In October of 1965, Mrs. Roff contacted Colt’s and asked for help in disposing of her husband’s collection, several of the guns having been taken home by Roff, and were set up on display in their recreation room. The included letter from Norm Flayderman explains that the current grip is indeed original and that the checkered antique ivory grip shown in Wilson’s books was put on only for photographing purposes. Wilson, however, stated that those grips were “noted in one of the factory museum inventories” in “The Book of Colt Firearms.”
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