The “Colt Revolving Belt Pistol of Naval Caliber,” as the 1851 Navy was originally called, was Colt’s first practical revolver, coming after its 4-lb., 8-oz., .44-cal. Dragoon and the less ...

44-caliber Dragoon, which weighed more than ... the other holding Colt Model 1851 Navy revolver. (Library of Congress) Through the middle and late 1860s, despite rivalry from the likes of ...

Designed by Samuel Colt himself, the Model 1851 Navy was ... Originally a .36-caliber percussion handgun, the Colt Navy was, for its time, a light (2½ pounds) revolver that had unusually fine ...

36 caliber Colt 1851 Navy revolvers with their backstraps engraved, “J.B. Hickok–1869" which he carried butt first, cross draw-style in either a waist sash or belt. Unfortunately, on August 2 ...

44-caliber revolvers to help arm U.S. troops in the ... A steel engraving of Samuel Colt with a Colt 1851 Navy Revolver. Colt’s invention was a revolutionary one; however, it was met with ...

The guerrilla's principal weapon was the .36 caliber 1851 Navy Colt revolver. This gun was named for its inventor, Samuel Colt, a native of Hartford, Connecticut, who as a young man designed the ...

69-caliber flintlock musket and a pair of Colt 1851 Navy pistols used in the Civil War ... Paulson said well-known gun appraiser Hayes Otoupalik determined the worth of the historic firearms.

The .36-caliber 1851 Navy Colt cap-and-ball revolver was passed down to him by a beloved relative who, Mr. Samuels says, was given the gun after Frank James surrendered to the Union army in ...