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Fine Historic U.S. Contract Colt “Fluck” Dragoon Percussion Revolver with Tooled Main & Winchester Holster, Powder Flask, and Bullet Mold - Serial no. 2688, 44 cal., 7 1/2 inch part round bbl., blue/ casehardened/brass finish, walnut grips. This revolver is one of the rarest Colt Dragoon variations: a so-called “Fluck” Dragoon which is now more properly known as a “Second Government Contract Dragoons.” More
recent findings on this variation are detailed in the article “Debunking the Fluck Myth: Colt Legends Die Hard”
by Dick Salzer (Gun Report version included). Salzer states, “The obvious conclusion is that Colt, for reasons of completeness perhaps, chose to number the guns made for the second government contract in a closed, out-of- sequence series, beginning with 2001 and continuing to 3000. That left him with a gap in his civilian production between 1340 and 2000 which he subsequently filled with later production guns.” This revolver is listed by serial number in Salzer’s “A Follow-up to the ‘Debunking the Fluck Myth’ Article” (included) which provides a list of 72 serial numbers reported after his first article. Additional documentation also accompanies the revolver, including records showing this revolver was in the Stanford University Museum and Gallery and was previously part of the Percy Morgan Collection and was sold by Stanford in 1968. A letter from May 17, 1968, from Registrar Leonard
R. Simon of Stanford University states that “It was a part of the Percy Morgan Collection which apparently was acquired by the Stanfords in the late 1800’s as it is listed among the original collections. We have never been able to discover who Percy Morgan was nor the exact date the collection was acquired.”The documents note that the collection included “42 firearms of international origin.”