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Uberti firearms have been featured in numerous Western movies thanks to their authentic looks. Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone visited the Uberti factory in the 1960s to procure replica Civil War and Old West revolvers for use in all his Western films including The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and Once Upon a Time in the West. [9]
The family of Colt Pocket Percussion Revolvers evolved from the earlier commercial revolvers marketed by the Patent Arms Manufacturing Company of Paterson, N.J. The smaller versions of Colt's first revolvers are also called "Baby Patersons" by collectors and were produced first in .28 to .31 caliber, and later in .36 caliber, by means of rebating the frame and adding a "step" to the cylinder ...
During this period, at least 4300 Walker replicas were produced by the “Colt Blackpowder Arms Company,” and marketed as part of the Colt third-generation “Signature Series.” [12] All the parts for the guns were made by Uberti or Armi San Marco, with Iver Johsnon handling quality control, final inspection, and sales. Colt no longer had ...
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The Sidehammer was the also Colt's first solid-frame, spur-trigger gun. This anatomical characteristic was not used again until the three models of the Colt Derringer started production in 1870. For the two first models, production lasted until 1890, while the third model continued until 1912 (and was re-released in the 1950s for Western movies ...
Pocket Model of 1849: 1850; Pocket Navy and Pocket Police: 1861; Colt revolving rifle (US – repeating rifle – 1855) Colt ring lever rifle (first and second model) (US – caplock revolving rifle – 1837 and 1838) Colt Single Action Army "Peacemaker" (US – revolver – 1873) Confederate Revolving Cannon
In the new market of metallic cartridge rear-loading pocket revolvers, Colt's not only introduced its three Derringer Models (as of 1870) or the Colt House and the Open Top Pocket (the last two as of 1871) but also introduced in 1873 a subsequent design called its "New Line" revolver models, based on William Mason's patents.
The Colt Model 1848 Percussion Army Revolver is a .44 caliber revolver designed by Samuel Colt for the U.S. Army's Regiment of Mounted Rifles. The revolver was also issued to the Army's "Dragoon" regiments. This revolver was designed as a solution to numerous problems encountered with the Colt Walker.