Collection Highlights
Front View of St. Peter's Church with the intended steeple
Date:
1785
Object Number:
PR.McComb.4.70
Medium:
Paper
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Colt Third Model Dragoon Revolver
Object Number:
1932.126
Date:
1851-1861
Medium:
Wood, steel, brass, silver
Dimensions:
Overall: 14 1/8 in. ( 35.9 cm )
Part (barrel): 7 1/2 in. (19.1 cm)
Marks:
stamped: buttplate, trigger guard, frame: "14566"
stamped: frame: "COLTS/PATENT"; barrel: "ADDRESS SAML COLT NEW YORK CITY"
engraved: cylinder: "...ODEL..../1456/W.E.O."
Description:
Wood, steel, brass, and silver revolver; part octagon, part round barrel with silver-plated brass trigger guard and gripstraps; roll-engraved Texas Ranger and Indian battle scene on cylinder; stamped marks on frame, barrel, cylinder, and trigger guard.
Gallery Label:
Developed during Colt's golden age of percussion manufacture, the Third Model Dragoon became one of the standard large-caliber, paper cartridge handguns used by cavalrymen and civilians in the decade before the Civil War, and after the war was replaced by a new line of metallic cartridge revolvers. The pistol was used by Lt. John Ramsey of the 6th New York Cavalry during the Civil War.
Credit Line:
Gift of Robert Stewart Suttcliffe
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
