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An Extremely Rare Colt Paterson Belt Model No.2/Ehlers Fifth Model Percussion RevolverNo. 407, Circa 1840-43
11 May 2016, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £9,375 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistAn Extremely Rare Colt Paterson Belt Model No.2/Ehlers Fifth Model Percussion Revolver
No. 407, Circa 1840-43
No. 407, Circa 1840-43
With octagonal sighted barrel rifled with eleven grooves and indistinctly engraved 'Patent Arms...Paterson N-J. Colt's Pt.' along the top flat, round-back cylinder indistinctly roll engraved with centaurs and 'Colt' within the four horse-head trademark, frame retaining traces of original blueing (the plate beneath the cylinder slightly incomplete on one side, action defective, two screws replaced), folding trigger, Ehlers rammer (retaining mount missing), rounded figured grips, and serial numbered barrel, barrel-wedge and action-plate (some wear, bruising and rust patination overall)
10 cm. barrel
10 cm. barrel
Footnotes
John Ehlers was an officer and stockholder of the Patent Arms Manufacturing Company assuming control of the company following its bankruptcy. Between about 1840 and 1843 it is believed that Ehlers completed about 500 unfinished Colt Paterson Pocket Model No.1 and Belt Model No.2 revolvers of which very few survive. For more information see Herbert G. Houze, Samuel Colt, Arms, Art, and Invention, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, May 6 2006 - January 7 2007, p. 65








