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COLT FIREARMS CO. factory drawing for GATLING sight patterns UNIQUE

$ 2639.98

Availability: 53 in stock
  • Primary Material: Paper
  • Condition: excellent, see photos
  • Maker: Colt
  • Country/Region of Origin: United States

    Description

    If you are a serious scholar of such stuff you can find the info. in Colt records.
    AD TEXT COPYRIGHT CSA 2023
    COPYRIGHT NOTICE : THE ENTIRE CONTENTS OF THIS OFFERING IS OWNED BY CRITTENDEN SCHMITT ARCHIVES AND IS OFFERED HERE BY CSA  DBA  CSAEOD.
    MUCH MORE IN THE STORE !
    IMPORTANT , HISTORICAL ORIGINAL COLT FACTORY DRAWING FOR 17 GATLING SIGHT PATTERNS. HAS BEEN IN MY OFFICE FOR over 50 YEARS. UNIQUE AND ORIGINAL HAND DRAWING. LARGE. SEE YARDSTICK FOR SIZE.
    I INCH (2), .75 (2) ,.65 (2), .65 RUSSIAN (2), .58, .50, .42 RUSSIAN (2) , .42 DANISH , .42 CAMEL (3) ROUND SIGHTS,LONG BARREL , SHORT BARREL , .65 CAMEL ROUND SIGHTS
    1872
    If you are not familiar with the collection of these drawings, they were saved from destruction during WW2 when Colt decided to clear all the old paper out of their attic due to their fear of  fires set by enemy agents. I had about 50 of the original drawings as well as a couple of hundred copies of production blue prints for most of the Gatling guns. Which I sold years ago.
    Many were signed and the others initialed by the artist. The entire lot came from a life long Colt employee who was tasked with cleaning out the papers. It included full size Gatling production drawings most of which have been sold to serious Gatling collectors and writers over the past 40+ years.
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    Many of the best drawings were sold to a top Machine gun collector and dealer named Curtis Earl  from Phoenix Az. He had a beautiful original Gatling on field carriage in his living room when I visited him in the late 1970s.