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Rare American revolver sells for more than 220,000
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Rare American revolver sells for more than 220,000 pounds
The Associated Press
7/24/02 6:12 PM
LONDON (AP) -- A rare Colt revolver made more than 150 years ago in the United States was sold at auction Wednesday for $343,550, Bonhams auctioneers said.
The Deluxe Cased Colt Paterson No. 2 Belt Model Percussion Revolver -- made in New Jersey in 1840 -- was sold in its original mahogany case with spare parts including a bullet mold and cleaning rod.
An unidentified bidder bought the gun, which had been found among the belongings of a woman who died in a small row house in southwest Scotland, Bonhams said. The firearm is worth more than the property itself.
The revolver has a blue octagonal sighted barrel, is inlaid with a band of German silver around the muzzle and has partial bands of silver behind the foresight.
David Williams of Bonhams' antique arms and armor department said the revolver was one of only a handful of its type ever made.
"It is a deservedly remarkable price for a remarkable object," he said. "It is extremely rare, and even at the time it was made it would have been pretty rare and expensive."
"It is of presentation quality and was probably never meant for use, although it was made to work if it needed to be," he added.
http://www.nj.com/newsflash/international/index.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?o0221_BC_NJ--Britain-Revolver&&news&newsflash-international
Copyright 2002 Associated Press. All rights reserved.
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
The Associated Press
7/24/02 6:12 PM
LONDON (AP) -- A rare Colt revolver made more than 150 years ago in the United States was sold at auction Wednesday for $343,550, Bonhams auctioneers said.
The Deluxe Cased Colt Paterson No. 2 Belt Model Percussion Revolver -- made in New Jersey in 1840 -- was sold in its original mahogany case with spare parts including a bullet mold and cleaning rod.
An unidentified bidder bought the gun, which had been found among the belongings of a woman who died in a small row house in southwest Scotland, Bonhams said. The firearm is worth more than the property itself.
The revolver has a blue octagonal sighted barrel, is inlaid with a band of German silver around the muzzle and has partial bands of silver behind the foresight.
David Williams of Bonhams' antique arms and armor department said the revolver was one of only a handful of its type ever made.
"It is a deservedly remarkable price for a remarkable object," he said. "It is extremely rare, and even at the time it was made it would have been pretty rare and expensive."
"It is of presentation quality and was probably never meant for use, although it was made to work if it needed to be," he added.
http://www.nj.com/newsflash/international/index.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?o0221_BC_NJ--Britain-Revolver&&news&newsflash-international
Copyright 2002 Associated Press. All rights reserved.
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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