拍品 209
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THE PROPERTY OF A COLLECTOR
A VERY RARE COLT PATERSON .40 CALIBRE 8-SHOT NO.1 RING-LEVER PERCUSSION RIFLE, No. 81 for 1837-8, with 27in. blued octagonal sighted barrel stamped 'Colt's Patent - Patent Arms Man'g. Co. Paterson. N. Jersey', without loading lever, and notched on each side of the rear of the breech, blued wedge, blued cylinder decorated with centaur, deer and huntsmen between rings, blued frame and ring-lever, varnished walnut butt with small oval blued steel plate on each side in front of the grip, cheek-piece inlaid with engraved white-metal Colt four horse-heads emblem, matching numbers, and nearly all its blued and varnished finish, with light flaking on the barrel and some discolouration, mainly on the trigger-guard and applied scroll, and on the butt-plate

細節
A VERY RARE COLT PATERSON .40 CALIBRE 8-SHOT NO.1 RING-LEVER PERCUSSION RIFLE, No. 81 for 1837-8, with 27in. blued octagonal sighted barrel stamped 'Colt's Patent - Patent Arms Man'g. Co. Paterson. N. Jersey', without loading lever, and notched on each side of the rear of the breech, blued wedge, blued cylinder decorated with centaur, deer and huntsmen between rings, blued frame and ring-lever, varnished walnut butt with small oval blued steel plate on each side in front of the grip, cheek-piece inlaid with engraved white-metal Colt four horse-heads emblem, matching numbers, and nearly all its blued and varnished finish, with light flaking on the barrel and some discolouration, mainly on the trigger-guard and applied scroll, and on the butt-plate

拍品專文

Discovered in recent years in Northern France, this is an outstanding example of the first production model firearm made by Samuel Colt. It is believed that only about 200 such rifles were produced, and nearly all those known to-day have serial numbers above one hundred. The horse-heads emblem on the cheek-piece is illustrated in R.L. Wilson, Colt Engraving, p. 18