The Colt "Paterson" revolver expected to be sold for more than $250,000 in a Dec. 2023 auction comes in a presentation case that ties it to a New Jersey legislator and an attorney for Samuel Colt.

Regardless of the source of his idea, Samuel Colt submitted his first patent for a revolver in 1836. These first Colt revolvers were called "Paterson" Colts, since they were manufactured at a ...

1835 - The first Colt revolver. Samuel Colt developed the first mass-produced, multi-shot, revolving firearms. Various revolving designs had been around for centuries, but precision parts couldn't ...

The rare Colt "Paterson" revolver will likely be far and away the highest-priced item at a Dec. 6-8 auction featuring more than 1,150 firearms and military relics, according to Morphy Auctions ...

Colt is no stranger to revolvers and the world of classic pistols. Their history with cylinder-fed pistols stretches back to 1835, when Samuel Colt patented the first revolver and founded ...

Despite the innovation displayed in Samuel Colt's early revolver designs made at the Paterson Falls, N.J., factory, this first venture proved less than successful. However, one of Colt's best ...

Ultimately, Colt and his gun-making brought together the two most significant forces of change before the Civil War--the industrial revolution in the east, Manifest Destiny in the west. Brilliantly ...

In 1860, Colt introduced the Colt Army Model, a .44-caliber single-action revolver that became the most widely used firearm in the Civil War. Furthermore, the Colt Model 1861 Navy revolver also ...

It proved to be a revolver of such size, weight, and heft that Colt was reputed to have said, "It would take a Texan to shoot it." Walker wrote in 1847 that the gun was "as effective as a common rifle ...