An important pair of cased Gustave Young style factory-engraved Colt Model 1851 Navy Revolvers, USA 1863
Both revolvers with a 7.5", 36 cal. barrel provided with brass cusp foresight, marked "- ADDRESS COL. SAM.L COLT NEW-YORK US AMERICA -". Both revolvers with working mechanism, three snaps and working trigger safety lock. Frames stamped "COLTS PATENT". Brass grip bands. Grips of walnut briarwood, decorated with a silver star on one side and an emblem depicting an Aztec coin on the other. In both Colts, "E" code marked above or below the serial numbers on the frame, barrel and grip bands. The revolvers are engraved with very similar patterns, in the typical style of Gustave Young with scrollworks on punched dots, present at the breech, on the sides of the frame and, in segments, on the grip bands. These alternate with skilfully undecorated areas (to avoid overburdening the appearance and slenderness of the pistols) and other small decorative elements, such as small frames on the nozzles and around the markings, shells on the back of the grips and wolf's heads on the sides of the hammers. There are slight differences in the decorative motifs between the two revolvers. One of the two trigger guards is marked "2". In a wooden box, probably adapted but not recently, containing some accessories: a powder flask marked "COLTS PATENT", a Colt-type bullet mould, a disassembly tool and some containers.
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