Sleek, balanced, and deadly accurate, the Colt Navy became one of the most popular revolvers of the 19th century. Its use in the Civil War and on the frontier made it a symbol of American grit.

Gun: Colt 1851 Navy–3rd Generation (Signature Series) Caliber:.36 percussion cap and ball Serial No: XX735 Manufactured: 1998 Condition: 99 percent-NRA Perfect (Modern Gun Standards) Value: $650 ...

The 1851 Navy soon found a ready market. Models exhibited at the Great Exhibition in London that year, alongside Dragoon and Pocket revolvers, were in such demand that Colt later established an ...

The Model 1851 Navy was one of Colt’s most popular cap-and-ball “belt pistols,” and more than 250,000 were produced between 1851 and 1873. But approximately 42,000, bearing their own set of ...

An ivory-handled Colt 1851 Navy revolver. NRA Museum. Designed by Samuel Colt himself, the Model 1851 Navy was so-called because of the naval battle scene engraved on its cylinder.

A steel engraving of Samuel Colt with a Colt 1851 Navy Revolver. Colt’s invention was a revolutionary one; however, it was met with hesitation and disinterest.

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 ...

It is a brass framed copy of the Colt 1851 Navy revolver. Connecticut Yankee Samuel Griswold set up a cotton gin factory in Georgia in 1830. The village of Griswoldville grew around the factory. In ...

Colt's Firearms Company Description Physical Description United States Colt M1861 Navy revolver, .36 caliber, backstrap is engraved “Maj. Gen. G. B. McClellan / with Compliments of Col. Colt”. General ...